Tortoiseshell Gives Cabinets Fine Finish ; As If the Popularity of Tortoiseshell Artefacts Were Not Enough to Put the Animal On the Endangered List, the Reptile's Habit of Laying Up to 100 Eggs at Night On Beaches Around the Persian Gulf has Only Exacerbated an Already Precious Situation.

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As if the popularity of tortoiseshell artefacts were not enough to put the animal on the endangered list, the reptile's habit of laying up to 100 eggs at night on beaches around the Persian Gulf has only exacerbated an already precious situation.

For years, such scenes have attracted so many tourists that now some of these eggs are removed to hatcheries to aid the newborns survival rate and yet despite such measures, their numbers remain at a critically low level for several species.

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Tortoiseshell Gives Cabinets Fine Finish ; As If the Popularity of Tortoiseshell Artefacts Were Not Enough to Put the Animal On the Endangered List, the Reptile's Habit of Laying Up to 100 Eggs at Night On Beaches Around the Persian Gulf has Only Exacerbated an Already Precious Situation.

It is one of nature's most wonderful and versatile substances that has been sought for thousands of years, yet is not ...

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