Authorities of the Control and Protection Program of the Osa Conservation Area (ACOSA) of Corcovado National Park, part of the National System of Conservation Areas (SINAC), detained two people ...

MIAMI, Fla. (CBS12) — A 36-year-old man from Alva was sentenced after pleading guilty to illegally shipping thousands of turtles to Germany and Hong Kong through the Miami International Airport. The U ...

The National System of Conservation Areas (SINAC) will launch a campaign on social networks to raise awareness and educate the population on the conservation and protection of hawksbill turtles.

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, ...

Beijing, China, 01 November 2012—TRAFFIC is urging holiday makers not to buy marine turtle productsthrough broadcasts in Hainan Province on local radio FM886 in an effort to stem the demand and ...

Government representatives from Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines and Viet Nam committed to improve intergovernmental cooperation to curb the illegal trade of marine turtles in the Coral Triangle.

The man was caught after an undercover agent of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service coordinated a sale with him on Facebook, the authorities said. By Jonathan Wolfe A man in Brooklyn pleaded guilty on ...

A raid on a bus in Bangladesh revealed just how deep the freshwater turtle trade goes. Last December, Bangladeshi wildlife ...

A global wildlife summit in Panama took an important step Thursday towards upgrading protection for sharks, the ancient ocean vertebrates targeted for their fins used in a status-symbol soup. Swimming ...

CROSS — As its name implies, the Rote Island snake-necked turtle is indigenous to Rote Island, located in the southern reaches of the Indonesian Archipelago. The island is surrounded by clear-blue ...