Killing gods: The last hope for the world’s rarest reptile

Mongabay
Jan 7, 2020, 11:35 am184 ptsTrending
Eighty-eight-year-old Le Huy Hoanh stands up from his bench and carefully poured tea in rural Vietnam, and mimes for us how he used to kill gods. With his long spear and a net flanked in cruel hooks, Hoanh was known for decades in his little village as an able hunter of the Yangtze giant softshell turtle…

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