Freshwater Turtle Conservation in the Karst Area of Yunnan and Guangxi
Grantee Name: Kunming Institute of Zoology ,Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Hotspot
- Indo-Burma
- Location
- China
- Amount
- $16,000
- Dates
- May 2014 – May 2016
- Keywords
- Habitat conservation and management, Research, Species Conservation
Protect Zhou's box turtle (Cuora zhoui) in China's limestone karst areas of Yunnan and Guangxi by carrying out a survey to assess its distribution, habitat preferences and population status, evaluating key threats, developing and initiating best-practice conservation and management strategies, and assessing the feasibility of captive breeding as a conservation approach for the species.
1 Safeguard priority globally threatened species by mitigating major threats
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