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Red-crowned Roofed Turtles
May 1 , 2025
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- After more than 30 years, 20 critically endangered red-crowned roofed turtles were reintroduced to the Ganga.
- Known by its biological name Batagur kachuga, the turtle is marked critically endangered in the IUCN.
- It is one of the 50 species in the list of Asia’s most-endangered tortoises and freshwater turtles.
- In India, red-crowned roofed turtles survive only in the Chambal River, with no evidence of their presence elsewhere in the world for the past 30 years.
- In Chambal, the population of red-crowned roofed turtles is less than 300.
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