China’s rich collectors target U.S. tortoise and turtle populations
Federal wildlife inspectors were randomly checking packages headed for China a month ago at a downtown Los Angeles post office when they were alarmed to find 170 turtles hidden in men’s socks in a cardboard box with no return address.
“This case signals a new and distressing trend: poachers in the U.S. willing to swap our own wildlife for a few dollars from Chinese collectors,” Paul Gibbons, chief operating officer of the nonprofit Turtle Conservancy’s Behler Chelonian Center in Ventura County, said.
“The Chinese have already driven their own species to near extinction, and now they are raiding ours.”
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Photo from James Liu / Turtle Conservancy’s Behler Chelonian Center.
