Natural range of critically endangered western swamp tortoise increasingly untenable owing to reduced rainfall
Twenty-four of Australia’s rarest tortoises have been released outside their natural range because climate change has dried out their remaining habitat.
The natural range of the critically endangered western swamp tortoise, Pseudemydura umbrina, has shrunk to two isolated wetlands in Perth’s ever-growing outer suburbs, and a herpetological expert, Dr Gerald Kuchling, said reduced rainfall and a lowered groundwater table made those areas increasingly untenable.
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Source: Guardian Environment