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JWM: Crows contribute to Karoo dwarf tortoise decline

February 18, 2022

Human-created structures like windmills and telephone poles are giving crows and ravens a place to nest, enabling them to colonize treeless areas where they prey on young, endangered Karoo dwarf tortoises in South Africa. Those …

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JWM: Gopher tortoise translocations deemed a “remarkable success”

September 15, 2020

Translocating gopher tortoises to a barrier island in Georgia has resulted in a “robust and secure” population two decades after major efforts. “If you do it right, [translocation] can actually be a very effective tool …

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More than half of turtle species in the world face extinction

July 1, 2020

More than half of the nearly 500 species and subspecies of turtles and tortoises in the world are threatened with extinction. According to a review published recently in Current Biology, this makes these reptiles one …

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Reptile atlas highlights more biodiversity hotspots

October 24, 2017

Compared to other vertebrates, reptiles have been a mystery to science, and their distribution has been less understood than that of mammals, birds and amphibians. A recently completed global atlas of terrestrial vertebrates is changing …

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