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May 23rd is the World Turtle Day, shellebrated since year 2000, and its goal is to bring attention to, and increase knowledge of and respect for, turtles and tortoises, and encourage human action to help them survive and thrive.

Nowadays, there are more than 300 different species of turtles and tortoises in the world, and more than half of those are in endangered, threatened or vulnerable status. Here you have a list with some of these turtles and tortoises that we need to care so they won't disappear, all of them beautiful in their own way.

More info: worldturtleday.org

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Kemp's Ridley Sea Turtle

Kemp's Ridley Sea Turtle

NPS Report

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Rosa Kim
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6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

these smol twoddles make me squeal with joy because they are SHO COOTE!!

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Black-breasted Leaf Turtle

Black-breasted Leaf Turtle

leafturtles Report

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Burmese Peacock Softshell Turtle

Burmese Peacock Softshell Turtle

Sinammonite Report

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Alabama Red-bellied Cooter

Alabama Red-bellied Cooter

Report

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Four-eyed Turtle

Four-eyed Turtle

Wikimedia Report

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Big-headed Turtle

Big-headed Turtle

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Coahuilan Box Turtle

Coahuilan Box Turtle

National Geographic Report

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Japanese Coin Turtle

Japanese Coin Turtle

James H. Hardy Report

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Yangtze Giant Softshell Turtle

Yangtze Giant Softshell Turtle

Tim McCormack Report

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Rosa Kim
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6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

after eating a family size bag of lays, two packs of double stuf oreos, and a liter of dr pepper

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Malaysian Giant Turtle Or Bornean River Turtle

Malaysian Giant Turtle Or Bornean River Turtle

Thomas T. Report

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Flat-backed Spider Tortoise

Flat-backed Spider Tortoise

Wikimedia Report

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Kawaii Lemon
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6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Spider tortoise, spider tortoise doing wut spider tortoise doz

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Beal's Eyed Turtle

Beal's Eyed Turtle

Zoohonda Report

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Red-necked Pond Turtle

Red-necked Pond Turtle

Bill Hughes Report

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Hoge's Side-necked Turtle

Hoge's Side-necked Turtle

Rodrigo Simoes Report

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Ricky Couture
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6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I think some guy named Hoge just dropped a turtle and didn't want to own up to it.

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Asian Forest Tortoise

Asian Forest Tortoise

Wikimedia Report

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Pearl River Map Turtle

Pearl River Map Turtle

Paul Vander Schouw Report

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Philippine Forest Turtle

Philippine Forest Turtle

Pierre Fidenci Report

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Cuatro Ciénegas Slider

Cuatro Ciénegas Slider

Benjamin_o Report

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Chinese Stripe-necked Turtle

Chinese Stripe-necked Turtle

Jungledragon Report

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Cane Turtle

Cane Turtle

Shankar Raman Report

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Yellow Tortoise

Yellow Tortoise

turtlesurvival Report

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Wattle-necked Softshell Turtle

Wattle-necked Softshell Turtle

saolablog Report

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Annam Leaf Turtle

Annam Leaf Turtle

Species On The Brink Report

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Flatened Musk Turtle

Flatened Musk Turtle

Kenneth P. Wray Report

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Magdalena River Turtle

Magdalena River Turtle

Wiki Colombia Report

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