Endangered turtle destined for soup pot gets new start

Mongabay
By Glenn SchererAug 25, 2015, 11:20 am138 pts
For one Asian giant softshell turtle, a single person's kindness meant the difference between life and death-as-soup. In July, Serene Voo Nyuk Wei stumbled on a 15 kilogram (33 pound) Asian giant soft shell turtle (Pelochelys cantorii) at a market in her hometown of Kota Kinabalu, the capital of the Malaysian…

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