Bellinger River virus found

Updated November 27 2018 - 1:17pm, first published 1:00pm
Virus that killed our turtles has been identified
Virus that killed our turtles has been identified

Scientists from NSW Department of Primary Industries have identified a virus which threatened to wipe out the only existing population of a critically endangered native species of freshwater turtle – the Bellinger River snapping turtle.

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