As populations began facing rapid decline, eventually the species was thought to be extinct, until two subpopulations were rediscovered in 2001 in the Chindwin and Dokhtawady rivers.

[7] The coloration of the adult females is more similar to each part of its body, ranging from a dark brown to a grayish-black among the head, carapace, and plastron respectively.

[4] The adult female age of a Burmese roofed turtle upon its first time reproducing in captivity is estimated to be at a maximum of 14 years old.

[8] These turtles choose to nest along the sandbanks of meanders that have little to no vegetation or canopy cover, and remain in what is locally coined an Aike, which is also known as a deep pool, for the remainder of the breeding season.

The current main threats to the Burmese roofed turtles include habitat degradation, predation, excessive egg collection, poaching of mature adults and juveniles for consumption and trade demands, pollution, fishing, as well as climate change through flooding and extreme weather.

There were two sets of 30 genetically diverse individuals of B. trivitatta that were reintroduced into the wild in two separate places along the Chindwin river.