A wildlife anecdote with a happy ending

[serenissima]

Most stories about wildlife are bad news. It's nice to see a happy ending.
AP: Microchip Saves Rare Cambodian Turtle

"HANOI, Vietnam - They're calling him 'the lucky royal turtle' — a rare and endangered reptile that was saved from a likely fate in a Chinese soup pot by keen-eyed wildlife officers and a microchip.
Poachers snatched the animal, a species called "Royal Turtle" in Cambodia because its eggs were once fed to kings, from a Cambodian river two months ago and toted it across the Vietnamese border on a motorbike with a stash of other, more common, turtles.
...When officials inspected it in Ho Chi Minh City, they found a tiny microchip implanted under its wrinkly skin, pinpointing its exact home on the Sre Ambel River in southern Cambodia.... Vietnamese and Cambodians officials worked together to repatriate the turtle. He was shipped back to Cambodia last week and is undergoing health checks before being returned to the wild."

Comments

[zeeth_kyrah]

Yay for observant people!