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 ATLANTA (AP) - Zoo Atlanta has hatched a rare Arakan forest turtle, a victory for researchers trying to save the endangered Asian species — one shell at a time.
The week-old turtle is the fourth of the brown-and-tan spotted reptiles born there in the last six years, zoo officials said Tuesday. Two of the hatchlings have died.
The zoo is the only facility in the world successfully breeding the Arakan forest turtle, which is one of the planet's most critically endangered species. They were believed to be extinct for close to a century, but appeared in Asian food markets in the mid-1990s.
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