After being yanked from her home in the wild and forced to be a house pet for 50 years, without proper care, the turtle is ...

For box turtle Rockalina, her life for the past half century has been a difficult one. She was kept alone on the floor of a family kitchen, with an improper diet and insufficient care that led to a ...

Sai Keung Tin, 54, was sentenced on Friday for his role in trafficking eastern box turtles, according to the U.S. Department of Justice.

Studies are suggesting that the box turtle popu­lation is dwindling, even as they remain common pets in many households.

The turtles intercepted at a Torrance mail facility were bound in socks to protect their shells and so they could not move and alert authorities.

Prosecutors say Sai Keung Tin trafficked about 2,100 box turtles to Hong Kong, where they were sold for upward of $2,000 each ...

Kochi: Air intelligence unit of customs at Cochin International Airport (Cial) seized four live turtles and a rabbit from a ...

The packages in a California mail facility were labeled as almonds and chocolate cookies. But inside were dozens of turtles wrapped in socks to keep them from moving and alerting authorities.

ALBANY, N.Y. (NEXSTAR) — Sai Keung Tin, a Chinese national also known as Ricky Tin, received a 30‑month prison sentence for smuggling protected eastern box turtles—native to New York—back ...

Sai Keung Tin, 54, was sentenced on Friday for his role in trafficking eastern box turtles — a protected species, according to the U.S. Department of Justice. Tin, also known as Ricky Tin ...