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High demand for sea turtles in China sends poachers toward Philippines

Chinese fishers have so badly depleted the population of sea turtles, many of them endangered, off the nation”s coasts that poachers are traveling far and wide to nab the sea reptiles. As China and the Philippines argue over stretches of the South China Sea, turtle poachers have already moved in. China has a taste for turtle; turtle soup, turtle eggs, turtle bone ground up for use in Chinese medicine to promote longevity — for people, not for the turtles… Source

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