Good new! A few weeks ago conservation biologists estimated that there were 3,000 Philippine forest turtles left in the world. But it turns out there are around 3,800!
Bad news: The reason the have this recount is they found all 3,800 piled up in a shipping crate.
That’s right, the entirety of a species on the verge of extinction due to being poached and put into the back of a shipping crate. Every. Single. One.
Read about the awesome efforts of turtle groups around the world to release these little guys over at The Dodo.