TAPAUA, Brazil — Environmental agents from Brazil’s Chico Mendes Institute released giant Amazon River turtle hatchlings into the waters of the Abufari Biological Reserve in Tapaua, Amazonas state, as ...

The Amazonian Chelonian Program counted 120,000 Arrau turtle hatchlings (Podocnemis expansa) in Cantão State Park in Brazil’s Tocantins state last year, a 300% increase from just four years earlier.

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Go forth and prosper, little snappers. On Tuesday, as part of a binational conservation project, an estimated one million Amazon River turtles were released into a river close to the border between ...