The Yellow-spotted River Turtle is threatened by indiscriminate egg collection due to its high demand.
The work carried out in Cordillera Azul National Park to confront these threats focuses on: environmental awareness in educational institutions in the buffer zone, coordinated work with residents and authorities of the towns, and community vigilance in the buffer zone.
In addition, campaigns to release Yellow-spotted River Turtle, charapa, and teparo hatchlings (a total of 6142 hatchlings by 2022) are being carried out. This campaign called “back to the river” includes the process of egg collection, nesting, monitoring, hatching, evaluation of growth and subsequent release, and is carried out with the active participation of authorities and residents of the towns of Nuevo San Martín and Fernando Belaunde Terry, the Manco Cápac native community, teachers and students of the Raúl Valdés Gordon Educational Institution of Pampa Hermosa, and members of the park’s Management Committee.
