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The health of each tortoise has been examined to find that they can be released after they each gain 80 grams in weight. After examination, it was found that the largest tortoise among the lot weighed 864 grams and was close to 4-5 years old while the smallest weighed only about 23 grams at one week of age.
Researchers recorded 268 incidents involving poaching or illegal trade of tortoises and freshwater turtles within India or originating from India between 2013 and 2019. Live or dead tortoises/hard-shell turtles were seized in at least 118 incidents. These incidents included more than 21,000 hard-shell turtles and a big chunk of these seizures containing live tortoises/hard-shell turtles were made in Bengaluru.
Did you know that a whopping 800 baby animals were born in our wildlife parks last year? Spread across 126 species, these new additions include 21 first-time births of species such as the Linne's Two-toed Sloth and the critically endangered Burmese Star Tortoise. Here are all the cute babies our parks welcomed into the world: In a win for conservation.