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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.

Strategic Direction :

1 Safeguard priority globally threatened species by mitigating major threats

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