For box turtle Rockalina, her life for the past half century has been a difficult one. She was kept alone on the floor of a ...

The turtles intercepted at a Torrance mail facility were bound in socks to protect their shells and so they could not move ...

A federal judge sentenced Sai Keung Tin, a Chinese citizen, to nearly three years in prison for his role in smuggling ...

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

A Hong Kong man was sentenced to 30 months in federal prison Friday for smuggling a protect turtles species after wildlife ...

The turtles intercepted at a Torrance mail facility were bound in socks to protect their shells and so they could not move ...

Sep 13, 2020 Sep 13, 2020 Updated Apr 13, 2021 Eastern box turtles, which can be found in back yards in the Aiken area, are under threat from the illegal wildlife trade. When confiscated by law ...

The eastern box turtle is collected in enormous numbers for the illegal wildlife trade. Only a portion of this trade is detected, and when it is, wildlife agencies must decide what to do with those ...

The turtles were bound in socks to protect their shells and so they could not move and alert authorities, officials said. The eastern box turtle is a subspecies of the common box turtle and is ...