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It is estimated that 31.8 million turtles, 97% farm-raised, were exported out of the U.S. between 2002 and 2005, according to a study by the World Chelonian Trust. The turtle traders have not focused on harvesting in Africa or Latin America, largely because transportation logistics and costs are not...
Popplewell, who wants more hard numbers on the effect of wild turtle harvesting, says as a bottom line he could support banning harvesting in public wetlands and waterways - in fact, he urges his co-op members not to collect there and he does not collect certain species of turtle. Four...
"We have seen the Chinese trade vacuum out one region after another - Burma, Vietnam, Borneo, Java, then Sumatra," says van Dijk. Typically, the trade follows a three- to five-year boom and bust cycle, van Dijk says, adding that 75% of Asia's 90 species of tortoise and freshwater turtles...
There also have been efforts to establish a turtle-farming industry in China - Popplewell has exported breeding stock from Texas - and a recent study co-authored by van Dijk found about 1000 turtle farms in China. But van Dijk says the farms cannot support the rising demand in a country...
The challenge, TWPD's Wagner says, is to keep abreast of all the changing forces in the wildlife global marketplace. It is not just American turtles that are in the spotlight. The proposed Texas rules will look at the harvesting of other species including lizards and snakes. Wildlife management is...