Embroiled in court case, African turtles to now take visitors at Bhopal zoo

After getting clearance from a Madhya Pradesh court, Bhopal’s Van Vihar will now display five rescued African spurred turtles.

After the order from a court in Madhya Pradesh, visitors to Bhopal zoo will now be able to see the five rescued African spurred turtles as they will be put on display in Bhopal’s Van Vihar. In 2018, Wildlife Special Task Force (STF) had arrested two West Bengal residents with six African spurred turtles in Seoni, Madhya Pradesh. The traffickers claimed that the African turtles were brought from Africa to Bangladesh and then to India. The police arrested the smugglers and seized the turtles while they were being smuggled to Mumbai.