The Dominican Fisheries and Aquaculture Council (CODOPESCA) has seized 259 pounds of illegally processed leatherback sea turtle meat at a seafood export company. The endangered species, disguised as ...

In this case, the lethality did not involve bullets or bombs, but turtles. The deaths came from eating turtle meat which involved the Tedurays, an indigenous people’s community, in the town of Datu ...

WWF Indonesia said the scale of the seizures in January indicated that the trade may be to supply turtle meat for consumption, rather than just for Hindu ceremonial uses. A 2019 investigation ...

Seven people fell sick in a Salmonella outbreak in Australia in 2024 after eating kangaroo meat. A Salmonella Muenchen ...

Prior to that, in March 2024 on the Tanzanian island of Pemba, nine people died and 78 were hospitalised after consuming sea turtle meat. Chelonitoxism, also known as sea turtle poisoning ...

A Peruvian fisherman who was rescued after 95 days lost at sea told CNN that his faith and his desire to see his family again ...

The deaths came from eating turtle meat which involved the Tedurays, an indigenous people’s community, in the town of Datu ...

Imagine ourselves as a female marine turtle, coming ashore to nest in the sands that annually welcome us under the protective ...

It was my life.” At one point, he even had to hunt a turtle – not for its meat but for its blood since he didn’t have anything else to drink. Not long after that, a hopeful sign finally arrived.

Some people in the local fishing community occasionally eat these turtles, believing that the meat has medicinal qualities. "The people here were not aware there were two species. They thought one ...