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Top 25 Turtles on Death Row - The Turtle Conservation Fund (TCF) today released its first-ever list of the World's Top 25 Most Endangered Turtles
Washington, DC, May 15, 2003—The
Turtle Conservation Fund (TCF) today released its first-ever list of the World’s
Top 25 Most Endangered Turtles to highlight the survival crisis facing the
world’s tortoises and freshwater turtles and to unveil a Global Action Plan to
prevent further extinctions. Fully 200 of the 300 living species of tortoises
and freshwater turtles are threatened and require conservation action.
The TCF list focuses on 25 species at highest risk and includes endangered and
critically endangered tortoises and freshwater turtles, based on the World
Conservation Union’s (IUCN) Red List of Threatened Species, as well as general
consensus between TCF’s three partner organizations—the Center For Applied
Biodiversity Science at Conservation International (CABS), the World Conservation
Union Species Survival Commission’s (IUCN/SSC) Tortoise and Freshwater Turtle
Specialist Group (TFTSG), and the IUCN/SSC Turtle Survival Alliance (TSA).
Supportive Documents: (Adobe *.pdf files - please note: some are quite large)
SNAPSHOTS OF THE WORLD’S TOP 25 MOST ENDANGERED TURTLES–2003
PROFILES OF THE WORLD’S TOP 25 MOST ENDANGERED TURTLES–2003
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