In Mexico, world’s smallest turtle faces big threats from trafficking, habitat loss

Mongabay
Nov 18, 2025, 6:00 am121 ptsTrending
It sounds like a scene out of the Ocean’s series of heist movies. Only this one didn’t happen in Las Vegas, but at a Mexican university campus surrounded by lush tropical vegetation. And it wasn’t about taking on a casino, but stealing valuable turtles. Armando Escobedo Galván, a biologist at Centro…

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