Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A Chinese citizen has been sentenced to 30 months in prison for smuggling more than 2,000 turtles from the U.S. to Hong Kong over ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An eastern box turtle seized from a package intended to be shipped to Hong Kong. (U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service) The packages in ...

HONG KONG — A Chinese man has admitted to smuggling around 850 protected turtles and other animals worth an estimated $1.4 million from the U.S. to the Chinese territory of Hong Kong, the Justice ...

A 54-year-old Hong Kong man was sentenced on Friday, March 14, in downtown Los Angeles to two years and six months behind bars after wildlife inspectors at a Torrance mail facility intercepted ...

In Pat Conroy’s book, The Great Santini, Col. Bull Meecham ran over Eastern box turtles for fun, to hear them go pop! on the highway. But in real life, another peril awaits the endangered little ...

The packages in a California mail facility were labeled as almonds and chocolate cookies. But inside were dozens of turtles wrapped in socks to keep them from moving and alerting authorities. They ...