Freshwater Turtle Conservation in the Karst Area of Yunnan and Guangxi

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.