Shell Game by Glenn Greenberg

Magazine: Time for Kids
Edition: 3-4, Vol. 6, No. 21
Date: April 15, 2016
Article: Shell Game
Author:  Glenn Greenberg
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Questions

1. What is the name of one of the world's most endangered tortoise?
2. How many of these tortoises exist in the wild?
3. Where does the tortoise live?
4. Who is the Director of Madagascar Operations for the Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust?
5. Why is the director defacing the shell of the tortoise?
6. Why are Ploughshares stolen from Madagascar?
7. Which country has an appetite to own these tortoises?
8. Who are the buyers of these tortoises compared to?
9. Why is Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust carving numbers into each tortoise’s shell?
10. Does drilling into the shell of the tortoise, hurt the tortoise?
11. Did the Madagascar Government approve the drilling on the tortoise?
12. How is Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust working to increase the number of tortoises?
13. Do you think marking the shells work to prevent people from stealing the tortoises?
14. When did Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust start their breeding program?


Reference
www.durrell.org/wildlife
http://www.arkive.org/ploughshare-tortoise/astrochelys-yniphora/
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