Twenty critically endangered ‘Royal Turtles’ were released into a remote stretch of a Cambodian river on Friday — a species once feared extinct because of hunting, trafficking and illegal sand mining.
With chants from Buddhist monks and a flotilla of ceremonial flowers behind them, the reptiles inched into the Sre Ambel river system, in southwestern Preah Sihanouk province.
Conservationists hope they will form new breeding populations.
In full: https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/cambodia-releases-twenty-endangered-royal-turtles-into-river-2029106
