scrAPES #17 - " Rare turtle, thought extinct, reintroduces into wild"

The article, "Rare turtle, thought extinct, reintroduces into wild" by Michael Casey, is about a rare turtle that was thought to be extinct appeared. About 60 Myanmar roofed turtles were released in the wild. This is a very important moment for a program that lasted seven years to revive the turtles. Now there are more than 600 turtles spread across several countries. Another facility is now holding up to 300 turtles alone. There goal for the next few years are to slowly put these turtles back into the wild. They have yo meet certain standards to be set the wild. But due to rapid habitat loss the turtles that have been sent out to the wild have plummeted. Many programs are still trying to bring back these turtles back to full strength.

The reason why I chose this article is because if the cover image. I saw this cute little turtle and wondered to myself, what happened to this little guy? It turns this cute little turtle was thought to be extinct for many years. Now that they were found and many people are trying to help and save there species makes me very happy. Many men and women are spending a lot of money to help this species get back on their feet.\

This article relates to environmental science because of the animal going extinct. The main reason this animal was going extinct is because of a major problem that is being supported by humans, habit loss. Habitat loss is major cause for many animals to be going extinct and humans are the main source. If we stop doing what we are doing we will have so many different ecosystems and so much biodiversity that Earth will more look like Earth before we started to deforest and other things.