A member of a non-profit turtle protection group found the animal floating in a Hanoi lake last Sunday, the local economic department head Phung Huy Vinh told VN Express.
The last known remaining female Yangtze giant softshell turtle was found dead in Vietnam last week, leaving the species on the brink of extinction.
Only two known living Yangtzes remain on earth — one in nearby Hanoi’s Xuân Khanh Lake and another in Suzhou Zoo.“It’s a real blow,” Tim McCormack, director of the Asian Turtle Program for Indo-Myanmar Conservation, The Yangtzes — the largest freshwater turtle — were decimated by habitat destruction and illegal turtle hunting,
Zimbabwean-American conservationist Forrest Galante suggested that the species could be brought back from the brink of extinction with the help of advanced cloning technology.
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