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The 10-year project began in 2019, although the zoo was releasing turtles before that and has freed around 3,000 of them over the past decade.

The western painted turtle is listed as an endangered species by the federal government and red-listed in B.C., meaning they face the highest risk of extinction in the province.

The zoo in Langley, B.C., is halfway through the project to collect western painted turtle eggs in the wild and hatch them, to increase their chances of survival when they are released.

Image | Turtle-Conservation 20250716 Caption: Menita Prasad, director of animal care at the Greater Vancouver Zoo, poses with a western painted turtle in an undated photo from the zoo. She's part ...