Minnesota’s Turtles are Protected from Commercial Harvest

Last year, state lawmakers approved a law eliminating the commercial harvest of two species—western painted turtles and snapping turtles. So Minnesota’s turtles get new protections.”Tens of thousands of Minnesota’s turtles are now safe from trappers out to make a quick buck,” said Collette Adkins, senior attorney at the Center for Biological Diversity, in a news release in May. “The science shows that even a small number of turtle traffickers can quickly devastate turtle populations.” 

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