LITTLE ROCK- Responding to a petition from the Center for Biological Diversity and several Arkansas-based environmental organizations, the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission recently adopted proposed ...

Report: Refusal to Ban Trapping Threatens Turtles in Nine States, Enables Illegal Trade CHARLESTON, S.C. — Nine states still allow unlimited commercial harvesting of some or all native turtle species, ...

The Report analyzes state laws in terms of how effective they are believed to protect wild turtles from commercial practices. 30 states allow no commercial turtle harvest, eight states provide ...

An Iowa Department of Natural Resources commission has advanced restrictions on the state's turtle trapping.The rules approved Thursday by the Natural Resource Commission would limit trappers to ...

Nathan Horton has been indicted by a federal grand jury for allegedly illegally trapping and exporting thousands of freshwater turtles in Georgia in violation of the Lacey Act, which regulates the ...

Painted turtles may soon be able to bask in the Minnesota sun on logs, rocks and shorelines with one less threat against them. After trying, unsuccessfully, for nearly 20 years to phase out commercial ...

ST. PAUL, Minn.— Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz today signed into law a ban on commercial collection of wild turtles in the state. Each year, for-profit trappers have collected thousands of turtles from the ...

One of the resident turtles swims in the holding pond at the Turtle Hospital in Marathon, Fla. July 7, 2009. A South Carolina man illegally trapped, then shipped hundreds of freshwater turtles from ...

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 ...

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 ...