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...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 competitive there, van Dijk says. Dallas-Fort Worth Airport is a major regional shipping point for turtles collected in the wild and harvested on turtle farms in Oklahoma and Louisiana. The turtles are packed in containers and shipped by air to Asia. Customs officials at both ends monitor the shipments, but accurate numbers...
...Depression, Americans living near the country's wetlands harvested high-protein turtle meat, sometimes so aggressively that it threatened local species. In the early 1930s thousands of pounds of terrapin were harvested in Maryland, but by 1937 the yield had fallen to just 537 pounds, according to Peter Paul van Dijk, director of the tortoise and freshwater turtle biodiversity program at Virginia-based Conservation International (CI). Turtle meat is still eaten in parts of rural America and there is a growing domestic market in urban Asian-American communities. The meat also has found its way onto high-dollar menus...
...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 now are threatened. Worldwide about 40% of long-lived, slow to mature species are at immediate risk of extinction, according to CI. Now, conservationists fear the Chinese turtle trade has the U.S. in its sights...
...biggest opportunity is in its pioneering use of celebrity designers such as Karl Lagerfeld and Stella McCartney. For the "M" line from Madonna, the singer worked with H&M designer Margareta van den Bosch, but it's clear whose name Chinese shoppers are looking for. "I'd buy almost anything Madonna designed," said Anne Yeung, 22, an architect trainee, as she waited in line in Hong Kong last month, "and so will all my friends...
...just received [a post]: ‘GO EAT HER PUSSY and then realize you’re gay so you have an identity crisis that’s followed by years of pain and anguish until you finally snap and drive your powder blue VW van off a cliff with the bodies of little boys in the trunk.’” Um, okay. Word to the wise: Your buddy’s semi-pornographic wall posts probably won’t do you justice in the eyes of judgement. That Merrill Lynch executive might decide you?...