More than 1,000 dead sea turtles seized in Vietnam
By kingsnake.com · December 1, 2014 5:33 am
More than one thousand endangered sea turtles have been seized by Vietnamese environmental police.
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“The turtles were all dead,” an official of the Ministry of Public Security’s environmental police department, Le Hong Thai, said. “They were meant to be processed into handicrafts for export to China,” he added. “The case is under investigation, so we cannot reveal the number of detainees or any other details,” he said. Vietnamese law protects five native marine turtles, making it a criminal offense to hunt, trade, or store them.Read the full story here.
