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World Service,3 mins
How conservationists are working to protect the world's most beautiful tortoise
Focus on AfricaAvailable for over a year
Madagascar's conservationists are working in secrecy to protect one of the world's most beautiful tortoises from poachers. Smugglers routinely attempt to traffic radiated tortoises out of the country in their hundreds. What becomes of those tortoises which conservationists manage to rescue? Martin Vogl reports. (Photo: A rescued radiated tortoise at the Turtle Survival Alliance's sanctuary near Antananarivo, Madagascar. Credit: Âé¶¹Éç.)
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