WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — A South Florida man has been sentenced to two years in prison for poaching more than 300 sea turtle eggs. Kenneth Cornelius Coleman of Riviera Beach pleaded guilty in ...
A new study says that the risk poaching poses to endangered sea turtles is on the decline -- although data on the subject is scarce. A new study says that the risk poaching poses to endangered sea ...
A turtle-egg rustler who stole hundreds of eggs during last year's nesting season received the harshest sentence ever handed down by a state court for the crime: a year in jail and an $11,250 fine.
KARAIKAL: With the Olive Ridley turtle nesting season approaching, conservationists highlighted the lack of an efficient structure, including hatcheries for turtle conservation in Karaikal, raising ...
Poaching poses a serious threat to marine turtles, especially as it is seldom viewed as a priority crime by the authorities. But this is about to change in Malaysia, where turtle poaching is going to ...
A staple dish in Peruvian cuisine, turtles eggs are being illegally poached in the upper Peruvian Amazon, with little oversight or intervention from authorities. Belén, a floating market in the town ...
WWF is working with a local community in Costa Rica to stop egg poaching of leatherback turtle nests. Costa Rica. April 2005.- WWF Central America works hard to save the endangered Pacific leatherback ...
Thousands of sea turtles come ashore in Odisha every year in a mass turtle nesting event. Learn what it is and why its ...
WEST WARWICK, R.I. (WPRI) — Turtle hatchlings that were illegally poached to be sold on the black market will be released back into the wild next year, according to the Rhode Island Department of ...
Miguel Torres spends most of his nights playing a game of cat and mouse. Along with seven colleagues, Torres, a wildlife-refuge patrolman, conducts hourly sweeps around Ostional Beach in northwestern ...
Little kids giddily squeal as a baby sea turtle, flippers flapping, lurches toward the water with the grace of a drunk lunging for a cab at closing time. Tourists applaud as about a dozen more ...