A Kentucky man was sentenced to 15 months in prison for illegally selling hundreds of captured box turtles into the international pet market, which nearly caused the local population in eastern part ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. A endangered Chinese box turtle that recently hatched at Bristol Zoo ...

Sai Keung Tin, 54, was sentenced on Friday for his role in trafficking eastern box turtles, according to the U.S. Department of Justice.

DIGHTON-Students at Bristol County Agricultural High School are helping to save a rare species of turtle, the Chinese box turtle, as part of the school's latest conservation project. The project, ...

An eastern box turtle seized from a package intended to be shipped to Hong Kong. (U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service) The packages in a California mail facility were labeled as almonds and chocolate ...

A woman from China has been arrested at a Vermont lake bordering Quebec for trying to smuggle 29 eastern box turtles, a protected species, into Canada by kayak, according to Border Patrol agents. Wan ...

A Chinese national living in Brooklyn tried to smuggle $1.4 million worth of protected turtles wrapped in masking tape out of the United States — by passing them off as “plastic animal toys,” ...

Suspect Wei Qiang Lin "labeled the boxes as containing 'plastic [and] animal toys,' among other things," authorities said Becca Longmire is a digital news writer-reporter at PEOPLE. She has been ...

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Box turtle on display at a press conference at LAX last September to announce a large public awareness campaign against illegal wildlife trade. Message is for travelers and consumers who traffic and ...