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“We need more researchers to study painted terrapins, because they might be ‘no oil paintings’ but they are priceless parts of the natural world and yet we know so little about them. We also need more funds to hire and train more people from the local communities to help conserve them, to establish a better hatchery, and to buy more field equipment such as microchips, scanners and satellite trackers.”

Read more about our painted terrapin researcher Muhammad Zaid Nasir’s experience in saving this little-known freshwater turtle species.

https://medium.com/@WWF/protecting-one-of-natures-drabbest-masterpieces-from-collectors-and-extinction-the-painted-3a141acca22f



By Muhammad Zaid Nasir, Painted Terrapin researcher, WWF-Malaysia

Source: https://medium.com/@WWF/protecting-one-of-natures-drabbest-m..



 

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WWF-Malaysia is a national conservation trust that currently runs conversation projects covering a diverse range of environmental protection & nature conservation in Malaysia. Our mission is to stop the degradation of the planet's natural environment and to build a future in which humans live in harmony with nature.

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