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Many hurdles for Thailand's tortured turtles

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Many hurdles for Thailand's tortured turtles

By Asaree Thaitrakulpanich, Staff Reporter

 

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National parks officials examine rescued turtles. Photo: Navee Changpirom / Courtesy

 

BANGKOK — It’s a normal day at one of the only animal hospitals in the capital that can operate on turtles as medics hurry to operate on a snail-eating turtle speared in the gut.

 

At Chulalongkorn University’s animal hospital, they see all manner of harms visited upon the animals. Being a turtle in Thailand isn’t easy – you get pancaked by cars, crammed into cramped temple pools, stuffed into smugglers’ suitcases and poached by humans as auspicious talismans.

 

Full Story: http://www.khaosodenglish.com/news/2018/05/23/many-hurdles-for-thailands-tortured-turtles/

 
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Still they survived for 150 million years ... people won't ... hope the turtles will still be here when humans are long gone ...

As long as they allow locals to use the rubber powered harpoons to spear a meal they will 

become extinct in 20 years except for the ones in captivity

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