Southwestern Pond Turtle Hatchlings Born at the San Diego Zoo After the 2020 Bobcat Fire Rescue Have Been Released into the Wild, Helping Strengthen a Vulnerable Native Population 

A team of biologists—including members from the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW), U.S. Forest Service (USFS), University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), Endemic Environmental Services Inc., Citrus College and San Diego Zoo Global—worked together over the last couple of weeks to find and rescue the last remaining reproductively viable population of southwestern pond turtles (Actinemys pallida) in the San Gabriel Mountains.