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00:00world turtle day and to talk to us with the assistant professor Dr. Gauru
00:06Ji. We will know what the turtle is in the ecosystem. What is the importance of the turtle?
00:14What is the importance of the turtle? What is the importance of the turtle? What is the
00:26importance of the turtle?
00:30So, the turtle is a unique animal. They belong to the reptiles. There are also four
00:39classes in the reptiles. There are also a testidines. It is a very interesting animal.
00:46It is not a unique animal. It is a unique animal. But people do not know it.
00:56Because first of all, they live in the water. So, there is no interaction with a lot of people.
01:01Secondly, in today's date, there are turtles because there are so many interactions with people.
01:07So, that is why people don't understand their importance. If we look ecologically,
01:13they play a very significant role. They are the best scavengers in our aquatic ecosystem.
01:20They are predators. They are herbivores. So, in this way, our whole ecosystem,
01:26especially the wetland ecosystem, is a very important feature of turtles.
01:30So, in this way, the water is very important. The wetland or the water body,
01:38the river is very healthy. So, turtles are a very important feature of turtles.
01:42I would like to tell you that in Delhi, where we have a river Yamuna,
01:47at any time, in the river Yamuna, there were birds were reported in the river Yamuna.
01:53But crocodiles were reported and many turtle species were reported.
01:55At today's date, we don't see turtles in the river Yamuna because it is so much polluted.
02:01And some of the places where we can see the turtles, which are very important.
02:15So, we look at the turtles, how many people can be found in the river.
02:19And the turtles' mountain, we can see how much the turtles are formed.
02:21It is basically ribs, which are the ribs.
02:51It is a fused version of it to give it protection
02:54because turtle is a soft body animal
02:56and nature has blessed it with a hard shell
03:03so many animals can't hunt it because of that hard shell
03:06so this is one thing
03:10and the other thing, in today's date, there is a lot of threat on our turtles
03:15I have told you that the increasing amount of pollution
03:19then water bodies are bad, sand mining is a lot more because turtles lay eggs on the sand banks
03:27so they need a very clean environment and sandy areas
03:32but you know that because of the sand mining, they have a whole habitat destruction
03:36and there is another big problem with turtles
03:39that they are illegally traded
03:42in many South Asian countries like Thailand, China, Bangkok, Myanmar
03:47in all countries there is a lot of demand
03:50there is a lot of demand from these countries
03:52one is that it is a lot of common in pet trade
03:55and the other is that their meat is a luxury delicacies
04:00so it is considered as one of the costliest luxury meat in the countries like Thailand, Bangkok, Myanmar
04:08there is another concept of Chinese traditional medicines
04:12so it is also used as aphrodisiac medicines
04:16and there is a lot of demand in pet trade
04:18even in India there are few species which are huge in demand in illegal pet trade
04:24like some Indian species
04:26I would like to tell you that we cannot keep the Indian wildlife in our home
04:30because they come in, they are scheduled animals
04:33Scheduled one is mostly turtle species
04:35in total in India there are 30 species of turtles and tortoises
04:39so turtles and tortoises are two different categories
04:41they belong to testudines only
04:43but there are 30 species
04:45and there are 30 species
04:47in which there are some species