Thousands of eggs and animals are lost each year to turtle hunters, and WWF-Malaysia is pushing for a total ban on the trade of eggs for all species of turtles. In the meantime, solutions envisioned ...

At a distance, I’ve watched poachers landing on remote beaches in the Pacific. I’ve felt helpless knowing what the end result will be. I’ve worked with community turtle monitors to approach them to ...

Jennifer Sevin is a co-founder and serves on the steering committee of the Collaborative to Combat the Illegal Trade in Turtles. Hatchling turtles are cute, small and inexpensive. Handled improperly, ...

DENPASAR, Indonesia — Conservation foundations on the Indonesian island of Bali raised concerns in February over the volume ...

The Bangladesh Forest Department recently confiscated a large shipment of freshwater turtles from smugglers in the capital city. Experts say the consumer base for freshwater turtles is expanding in ...

The attractive turtle, once wanted for its meat, is now an increasingly popular pet and favoured among wildlife smugglers with many turtles observed for sale in Asian markets or in online trade. Black ...

Hatchling turtles are cute, small and inexpensive. Handled improperly, they also can make you sick. Turtles are well-known carriers of salmonella, a common bacterial disease that causes fever, stomach ...

Seizures of large consignments of live turtles in northwest Bali in January have raised concerns among conservationists that trade in the protected species may remain pervasive despite recent progress ...