Flaviemys purvisi to get lifeline from Australian Reptile Park
It’s a late autumn day, warm and windy, the she oaks are whispering on the banks of the river, and Tim Faulkner, clad in a wetsuit, is snorkelling, looking for the Manning River turtle.
It is a place the wildlife conservationist has seen them many times before, but we can’t share its location. The turtle is so rare and so sought after that poaching is a problem…
Tim is, in his own words, “a turtle nut”, as you’d expect the manager from the Australian Reptile Park (ARP) to be, and he is incredibly passionate about our little turtle. So much so that he is planning to start an insurance population captive breeding program, similar to that of the Taronga Zoo/Symbio Wildlife Park partnership for the Bellinger River turtle.
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Photo from Tim Faulkner.
