Protecting One Of Nature’s Drabbest Masterpieces F..

“We need more researchers to study painted terrapins, because they might be ‘no oil paintings’ but they are priceless parts of the natural world and yet we know so little about them. We also need more funds to hire and train more people from the local communities to help conserve them, to establish a better hatchery, and to buy more field equipment such as microchips, scanners and satellite trackers.”

Read more about our painted terrapin researcher Muhammad Zaid Nasir’s experience in saving this little-known freshwater turtle species.

https://medium.com/@WWF/protecting-one-of-natures-drabbest-masterpieces-from-collectors-and-extinction-the-painted-3a141acca22f



By Muhammad Zaid Nasir, Painted Terrapin researcher, WWF-Malaysia

Source: https://medium.com/@WWF/protecting-one-of-natures-drabbest-m..

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