Title
Podocnemis expansa (Giant South American River Turtle). Juvenile Movement.
Author(s)
Silva, L. C. N.; Fagundes, C. K.; Ferrara, C. R.; Morcatty, T. Q.; Benardes, V. C. D.; SILVA, L. C. N. ; FAGUNDES
Published
2017
Publisher
Herpetological Review
Abstract
The Turtle Conservation Program of the Lower Negro River was founded in 2014, and is focused on a priority area for chelonian conservation in the Amazon (Fagundes et al. 2015. Divers. Distrib. 1–13). The program meets a demand from the Brazilian riverine communities of three protected areas (PAs: Jaú National Park, Rio Unini Extractive Reserve, and Rio Negro State Park North Section) to protect turtle species that are an important food resource. One of the program’s principal aims is to promote the conservation and management of nesting sites for four different turtle species in the above mentioned PAs through participatory monitoring.

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