Short video highlights dedicated ATP’s staff working at Cuc Phuong
At 20:00 on the 31st of May 2018, the VTC10 channel aired its 3-minute video on piece of rescue and ... Read More
High mortality seen in tortoises and freshwater turtles in Vietnam
On the 24th May 2015, a small group of three endangered Big-headed turtles (Platysternon megacephalum), five critically endangered Indochinese Box ... Read More
Critically endangered turtles rescued in Quang Nam Province, central Vietnam
A rescue of 191 threatened tortoises and freshwater turtles has arrived at the Turtle Conservation Centre (TCC) of Cuc Phuong ... Read More
PRESS RELEASE: Implementation of smartphone-based environmental DNA testing and capture technologies to detect Rafetus swinhoei in the wild
Ha Noi, April 26 to May 9, 2018: A training workshop introducing eDNA (environmental DNA) and smartphone-based testing for the ... Read More
Training workshop to prevent electrofishing in the world’s rarest turtle’s habitat
Although much of the past few weeks has been focused on the discovery of another wild Swinhoe’s softshell turtle at ... Read More
Environmental DNA helps confirm a new individual of the world’s rarest turtle in the wild – 4 animals now known
The worlds most endangered turtle species and, arguably one of the world’s rarest animals, Swinhoe’s Softshell Turtle (Rafetus swinhoei) has ... Read More
Training the next generation of turtle conservationists in Vietnam
During the first week of April 2018 we have organised the annual Tortoise and Freshwater Turtle Field Skill Training Course ... Read More
Special school performace held “Together to conserve Swinhoe’s Softshell Turtle” in Son Dong, Son Tay, Vietnam.
On the 8th of March 2018, the Asian Turtle Program (ATP) of the Indo-Myanmar Conservation (IMC), in collaboration with the People’s ... Read More
15% of the world’s top 25 most endangered tortoise and freshwater turtles are found in Vietnam.
Vietnam now has four species, accounting for 14.8% of top 25 the world’s most endangered Tortoise and Freshwater Turtle (TFT) ... Read More
New species of frog from the genus Leptolalax described by IMC staff in Vietnam
A new species of frog from the Leptolalax genus, Rowley’s Leaf-litter Frog (Leptolalax rowleyae) has recently been described from Son ... Read More