Study refutes claim that Indonesia’s legal turtle trade supports livelihoods

Mongabay
Feb 16, 2026, 1:03 pm58 ptsTrending
With an evolutionary history of more than 200 million years, turtles and tortoises have outlived dinosaurs and persisted on the planet despite mass extinction events. But around the turn of the 21st century, chelonian numbers in Southeast Asia dropped so dramatically that it sparked what biologists called the…

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