“China and the United States are parties to CITES.” While the eastern box turtle is not considered an endangered species nationally, some states — including Michigan, New Hampshire ...

Chinese national Sai Keung Tin received a 30-month prison sentence for smuggling thousands of protected eastern box turtles from New York to Hong Kong.

I grab more seaweed and uncover what I’ve been searching for: a Kemp’s ridley turtle, a member of the world’s most endangered species ... towel in a cardboard box that once held bananas.

He and Tin primarily trafficked the eastern box turtle, a subspecies of the common ... under the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora.

Rhossi, a critically endangered Kemp's ridley sea turtle, was found on the coast of Anglesey, northern Wales, in 2023. Rhossi was nursed back to health by the team at Anglesey Sea Zoo, and is now ...

Kemp's ridley, the world's smallest sea turtle species, are found primarily in the Gulf of Mexico, renamed the Gulf of America by President Donald Trump. Populations crashed during the 20th ...

The eastern box turtles, known for the vivid yellow-orange ... The turtles are protected by the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora, of which China ...

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

In New York—where drivers often accidentally run over and kill them during nesting season in May—eastern box turtles are not endangered ... That’s why each box turtle death or removal ...

He and Tin primarily trafficked the eastern box turtle, a subspecies of the common ... under the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora.