Rare and threatened species of freshwater turtle, the critically endangered Rote Island's endemic snake-necked turtles (Chelodina mccordi) are photographed at a licensed ex-situ breeding farm in Jakarta, Indonesia. Scientific research suggests that reptile richness is likely to decrease significantly across most parts of the world with ongoing future climate change.
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Rare and threatened species of freshwater turtle, the critically endangered Rote Island's endemic snake-necked turtles (Chelodina mccordi) are photographed at a licensed ex-situ breeding farm in Jakarta, Indonesia. Scientific research suggests that reptile richness is likely to decrease significantly across most parts of the world with ongoing future climate change._"Together with other anthropogenic impacts, such as habitat loss and harvesting of species, this is a cause for concern. Given the historical lack of global reptile distributions, this calls for a re-assessment of global reptile conservation efforts, with a specific focus on anticipated future climate change, " wrote a team of scientists led by Matthias Biber (Department for Life Science Systems, School of Life Sciences, Technical University of Munich, Freising) in their May 2022 paper first published on Global Ecology and Biogeography; accessed through Wiley online library, _According to another team of scientists, Deanna H. Olson and Daniel Saenz, many reptiles are highly sensitive to the altered temperatures that may result from climate change. "They rely on ambient environmental temperatures to maintain critical physiological processes, " they wrote in a page of Climate Change Resource Center on United States Department of Agriculture's website._The Rote Island snake-necked turtle itself is one glaring example of how unsustainable trade has brought entire species to the brink of extinction, according to Jim Breheny, Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) Executive Vice President and Director of the Bronx Zoo as published by WCS Newsroom on September 7, 2022. The turtles are under intense pressure from human activities, including collection for food and the pet trade, habitat destruction and climate change._In 2019, the Indonesian national and local authorities have established a Wetland Essential Ecosystem Area as the habitat for the species, that is protected for conservation purpose.