It's a real blow," said Tim McCormack, the director of the Asian Turtle Program for Indo-Myanmar Conservation. "It was a large female that obviously had great reproductive capacity. She could have ...

It reaches up to 60cm in length and weighs up to 20-37kg. Most Asian turtles and tortoises are sexually diamorphic, with the female being up to 10cm larger than the male. Turtles and tortoises move ...

They were among around 2,100 turtles federal authorities say Sai Keung Tin, a Chinese citizen, had trafficked over more than five years as part of what the U.S. Department of Justice called the ...

Tin Sai-keung was sentenced to nearly three years in jail for smuggling the protected species, coveted by China’s middle ...

But inside were dozens of turtles wrapped in socks to keep them ... of what the U.S. Department of Justice called the illegal Asian pet trade. Tin pleaded guilty in December to four counts of ...

The packages in a California mail facility were labeled as almonds and chocolate cookies. But inside were dozens of turtles wrapped in socks to keep them from ...