Chinese Traditional Medicine Threatens Turtle Populations

ENN
Aug 11, 2014, 9:53 am15 pts
For thousands of years turtles have been used in Chinese traditional medicine to treat a wide variety of ailments and diseases. Originally published in the journal Radiata and recently republished HerpDigest David S. Lee and Liao Shi Kun write, "[In Chinese culture] turtles are symbolic of long life, personal…

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