A Turtle With a Permanent Smile Was Brought Back from Extinction

"This is one of the best global-level turtle conservation successes we have.” - Rick Hudson, President, Turtle Survival Alliance

“We came so close to losing them,” said Steven G. Platt, a herpetologist at the Wildlife Conservation Society. “If we didn’t intervene when we did, this turtle would have just been gone.”

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