A movement to abolish commercial turtle harvesting in Minnesota will continue to inch along despite a setback at the Legislature this year. A measure to revoke the licenses of trappers who still ...

After 20 years of trying to phase out commercial turtle trapping in Minnesota, lawmakers have banned the practice. Gov. Tim Walz signed legislation May 24 that outlaws commercial turtle trapping ...

The recent loss of a critically endangered Pacific leatherback sea turtle found ensnared in derelict crabbing gear near the Farallon Islands has cast a pall over the troubled commercial fishing fleet ...

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MINNEAPOLIS — Trapping turtles for profit will soon be a thing of the past in Minnesota. Starting next January, commercial harvesting of the state's wild turtles will no longer be legal. It's a move ...

TUCSON, Ariz.— The Center for Biological Diversity and two dozen other conservation and health groups today filed emergency petitions with eight Midwestern and southern states, seeking to end ...

A reader on the open line was interested in this subject, so I can share a news release on an effort by several environmental organizations to end commercial turtle collection in Arkansas. The ...

A bill signed by Gov. Henry McMaster will ban the commercial trade of native turtles in the state. Wildlife advocates say that before the legislation was signed last month, South Carolina law ...

Minnesota’s turtles got new protections as of Monday, Jan. 1. In 2023, state lawmakers approved a law eliminating the commercial harvest of two species — western painted turtles and snapping turtles.

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo.— In response to a petition filed by the Center for Biological Diversity and Great Rivers Environmental Law Center, the Missouri Department of Conservation today banned commercial ...

CRYSTAL RIVER — Florida banned commercial harvests of freshwater turtles Wednesday, saying that foreign demand threatened to damage whole turtle populations. The decision is one of the most ambitious ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Alabama has outlawed commercial harvesting of turtles from the state's freshwater bodies, leaving Asia's thriving market to look elsewhere for the highly desirable meat. "Asia ...