Despite its popularity, America’s love affair with terrapin didn’t last. The turtles were quickly overfished, and development ...

In this case, the lethality did not involve bullets or bombs, but turtles. The deaths came from eating turtle meat which involved the Tedurays, an indigenous people’s community, in the town of Datu ...

Prior to that, in March 2024 on the Tanzanian island of Pemba, nine people died and 78 were hospitalised after consuming sea turtle meat. Chelonitoxism, also known as sea turtle poisoning ...

We turn to them for healing: Turtle meat in West Africa was once believed to fight leprosy, and bathing in a broth of loggerhead plastron, the bony undershell, was considered a tonic for lung ...

The Dominican Fisheries and Aquaculture Council (CODOPESCA) has seized 259 pounds of illegally processed leatherback sea turtle meat at a seafood export company. The endangered species, disguised as ...

WWF Indonesia said the scale of the seizures in January indicated that the trade may be to supply turtle meat for consumption, rather than just for Hindu ceremonial uses. A 2019 investigation ...

Sailors prized green turtles as food, as they could be kept live onboard until slaughter, providing a welcomed alternative to salt pork and other preserved staples. Eventually, the demand for green ...

“We didn’t know poaching was illegal and that we should not eat turtle eggs and meat.” He carefully transferred each egg into his pail, along with some sand from the turtle nests, to be ...

“Turtles around the globe are gravely threatened by the pernicious pet and meat trades, but these U.S. species just got a much better shot at survival.” Sought after as pets or for human consumption, ...

A Brief History of Fat Fads in America, From Nut Margarine to Beef Tallow Turtle meat was part of Indigenous people’s diets in both North America and the Caribbean before Europeans ever arrived ...