Feitsui Reservoir (翡翠水庫) in New Taipei City has the largest and most stable population of yellow-margined box turtles in Asia, administrators said on Monday. About 1,296 hectares of the reservoir are ...

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 ...

US federal prosecutors say a flight attendant for a Chinese airline has pleaded guilty to attempting to smuggle nearly two dozen spotted and box turtles in a carry-on bag from Los Angeles to China.

A Chinese citizen has been sentenced to 30 months in prison for smuggling more than 2,000 turtles from the U.S. to Hong Kong over about five years, federal prosecutors said. Sai Keung Tin, 54, was ...

A Chinese citizen has been sentenced to 30 months in prison for smuggling more than 2,000 turtles from the U.S. to Hong Kong over about five years, federal prosecutors said. Sai Keung Tin, 54, was ...

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.

Eastern box turtles are known to be sold on the Chinese black market for $1,000 each, according to the affidavit. Ng is charged with attempting to export the turtles from the U.S., in violation of ...