The San Diego Zoo announced the hatching of 41 endangered Indian narrow-headed softshell turtles Monday after a 21-year effort to breed them. With this accomplishment, the San Diego Zoo Wildlife ...

After years of self-learning and experimentation, a young farmer in southern Vietnam now earns stable income from softshell turtles.

San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance researchers are celebrating their first successful breeding of an endangered Indian narrow-headed softshell turtle. The hatchlings are the product of a reproductive ...

The rewilding of 50 captive-bred spotted softshell turtles has sparked hope among conservationists for the future of the rare and threatened species in Vietnam, a country where softshell turtles are ...

Conservationists have initiated breeding programs in Vietnam to recover spotted softshell turtle populations threatened by overconsumption and habitat loss. Based on a literature study, field surveys ...

THERE. PRETTY GOOD. RARE AND ENDANGERED TURTLE SPECIES HAS BRED AT THE SAN DIEGO ZOO. STAFF SAY THEY ARE CARING FOR A 41 INDIAN NARROW HAD A SOFT SHELL TURTLE HATCHLINGS. CONSERVATION ISTS HAD ...

At least 297 rare turtles in two species had hatched from their nests in Cambodia during the 2026 breeding season, said a news release from the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) Cambodia on Monday.

Guwahati: In a first in the nation, a satellite tagged endangered Ganges softshell turtle was released at Assam’s Kaziranga National Park and Tiger Reserve (KNPTR), officials said on Friday.

Two paratypes of Pelodiscus variegatus sp. n. in life. A, C) female, 75.2 mm. B, D) female, 86.6 mm. Credit: Thomas Ziegler/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY Considered a delicacy in China and Vietnam, the ...