By admin on Sep 12, 2010 in Travel and Holiday
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Conservation International has released a new report that spells out a bleak future for the world’s freshwater turtles: A full 1/3 of the 280 known species currently face extinction. Evidently, a lucrative pet trade, hunting of turtles for food, and habitat loss are the key contributors to turtles’ “catastrophic decline”. The good news –what little there is, anyway — is that the rapi… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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