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The frog-headed turtle breeding season runs from November to May. PHNOM PENH (The Phnom Penh Post/ANN): The Wildlife Conservation Society’s (WCS Cambodia) Nest Protection Team, in collaboration with the Fisheries Administration, have found five nests of the critically endangered Cantor’s Giant Softshell Turtle (also known as frog-headed turtle) during the 2020 breeding season on a beach along the Mekong River in Kratie province’s Sambor district. WCS Cambodia’s Mekong Regional Coordinator Nhuon Chanty told The Post that the first nest they discovered had 32 eggs, but within a week th...

Share WCS Cambodia finds five nests of frog-headed turtle Thu, 31 December 2020 The Wildlife Conservation Society’s (WCS Cambodia) Nest Protection Team, in collaboration with the Fisheries Administration, have found five nests of the critically endangered Cantor’s Giant Softshell Turtle (also known as frog-headed turtle) during the 2020 breeding season on a beach along the Mekong River in Kratie province’s Sambor district. WCS Cambodia’s Mekong Regional Coordinator Nhuon Chanty told The Post that the first nest they discovered had 32 eggs, but within a week the team had found four mo...

Share Sitha’s team’s discovery of a living population of Cantor’s turtles has inspired hope. WCS CAMBODIA WCS’ project manager Sitha honoured as ‘Mekong Hero’ Thu, 24 December 2020 Som Sitha, the Koh Kong and Mekong Conservation Project manager at Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS Cambodia), has been selected as one of the six Mekong Conservation Heroes for 2020-2021 by the Mekong Conservation Heroes programme (MCH) – a part of the Wonders of the Mekong project funded by the US Agency for International Development (USAID). The MCH was developed to shine a spotlight on outstandi...