The investigation, dubbed Operation Souther Hot Herps, spanned from early 2022 to late 2023 where officials said 1,700 ...

A federal magistrate judge in Phoenix ordered Albert Bazaar held in custody following his arrest on charges relating to trafficking turtles. The court unsealed an indictment from San ...

Authorites have detained a man accused of participating in a turtle poaching scheme tied to the Asian pet trade, officials ...

Feds say a Louisiana man stole and sold more than 1,800 Florida turtles worth $550,000, using boats and false paperwork to ...

Albert Bazaar allegedly sold protected Florida turtles to an exporter who shipped them to Taiwan's pet trade, falsely ...

They shelled out good money. A Florida man pocketed $125,000 from the illegally selling turtles he shipped to Germany and Hong Kong. John Michael Kreatsoulas, 36, of Alva —near Fort Myers — pleaded ...

In a weird way, stinky turtles have led to my current life as a guy in Costa Rica working in wildlife monitoring. Up until the age of ten I lived in southern New Jersey. The area I grew up in wasn’t ...

Saving an endangered species is rarely easy, but the path to survival seems especially hard for Southern Arizona’s rarest reptile. The Sonoyta mud turtle’s only known home in the U.S. is a fragile, ...