{"id":1529,"date":"2018-01-19T11:19:56","date_gmt":"2018-01-19T11:19:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.conservationpulse.com\/?p=1529"},"modified":"2021-03-05T07:33:43","modified_gmt":"2021-03-05T07:33:43","slug":"2018-01-best_photo_rafetus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indomyanmarconservation.org\/my\/2018-01-best_photo_rafetus\/","title":{"rendered":"The best photograph so far of the world\u2019s rarest turtle in the wild"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On the 19<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0of January 2018 we were very excited to capture the best photograph of the world\u2019s rarest turtle in the wild. Nguyen Van Trong of the Asian Turtle Program (ATP) of Indo Myanmar Conservation (IMC) was able to take the picture while working to monitor Swinhoe&#8217;s Softshell Turtles (<em>Rafetus swinhoei<\/em>) in Dong Mo Lake on the outskirts of Hanoi, Vietnam. The species is critically endangered with only three animals currently known in existence globally. Monitoring of the only known wild location for the species is critically to providing a level of protection and increasing our understanding of the species.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1534\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1534\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/176.32.230.17\/indomyanmarconservation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Rafetus_swinhoei-2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1534\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D&#39;http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg&#39;%20width=&#39;600&#39;%20height=&#39;347&#39;%20viewBox%3D&#39;0%200%20600%20347&#39;%2F%3E\" data-czlz data-src=\"http:\/\/176.32.230.17\/indomyanmarconservation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Rafetus_swinhoei-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"347\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/indomyanmarconservation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Rafetus_swinhoei-2.jpg 800w, https:\/\/indomyanmarconservation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Rafetus_swinhoei-2-300x173.jpg 300w, https:\/\/indomyanmarconservation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Rafetus_swinhoei-2-768x444.jpg 768w, https:\/\/indomyanmarconservation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Rafetus_swinhoei-2-600x347.jpg 600w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1534\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo of a Swinhoe&#8217;s Softshell Turtles (<em>Rafetus swinhoei<\/em>) in Dong Mo Lake taken on 19 January 2018 by Nguyen Van Trong, a local counterpart of ATP\/IMC.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the 19th\u00a0of January 2018 we were very excited to capture the best photograph of the world\u2019s rarest turtle in &#8230; <a class=\"cz_readmore\" href=\"https:\/\/indomyanmarconservation.org\/my\/2018-01-best_photo_rafetus\/\"><i class=\"fa fa-angle-right\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i><span>Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":1533,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,18],"tags":[91,50],"class_list":["post-1529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-atp-news","category-other_news","tag-dong-mo-lake","tag-rafetus-swinhoei"],"translation":{"provider":"WPGlobus","version":"3.0.0","language":"my","enabled_languages":["en","vi","my"],"languages":{"en":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false},"vi":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false},"my":{"title":false,"content":false,"excerpt":false}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/indomyanmarconservation.org\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/indomyanmarconservation.org\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/indomyanmarconservation.org\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indomyanmarconservation.org\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indomyanmarconservation.org\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1529"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/indomyanmarconservation.org\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1529\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1538,"href":"https:\/\/indomyanmarconservation.org\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1529\/revisions\/1538"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indomyanmarconservation.org\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/indomyanmarconservation.org\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indomyanmarconservation.org\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indomyanmarconservation.org\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}