580 turtle hatchlings released into Mekong on World Turtle Day

Small softshell tortoise were released into the Mekong River to celebrate World Turtle Day on May 23. - WCS

PHNOM PENH (The Phnom Penh Post/Asia News Network): To mark World Turtle Day, Wildlife Conservation Society Cambodia (WCS Cambodia) – in collaboration with the Fisheries Administration (FiA) – celebrated the conservation of the critically endangered Cantor’s Giant Softshell Turtles (Pelochelys cantorii) by releasing 580 hatchlings into the wild along the Mekong River in Kratie province’s Sambour district.

WCS country director Ken Serey Rotha told The Post on May 23 that this was not the first time that the WCS and the FiA had co-organised a programme to release the hatchlings into the wild.