Giovanni Bacordo

High demand for sea turtles in China sends poachers toward Philippines

Environment

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.

The World

Sea Turtle Poaching and High Demand in China

Global Politics