A turtle smuggler who was caught in the act is facing massive punishments. Wan Yee Ng was arrested in June in Vermont, from ...

In cartoons, when a turtle is spooked, it retreats into and closes up its shell. While used for comic effect, this imagery is ...

Wan Yee Ng, 41, entered the guilty plea Friday in U.S. District Court in Burlington, Vermont to a single count of attempting to smuggle eastern box turtles from Vermont to Canada. Eastern box ...

An eastern box turtle returned to nature in Orangeburg Friday, thanks to a trio of humans who each played a role in saving it.

A Chinese woman has pleaded guilty to trying to smuggle 29 eastern box turtles by kayaking from Vermont to Canada. Wan Yee Ng ...

The eastern box turtle is collected in enormous numbers for the illegal wildlife trade. Only a portion of this trade is detected, and when it is, wildlife agencies must decide what to do with those ...

We were joined in the studio today by an Eastern Box Turtle and two of it’s caretakers at the West Shore Wildlife Center, Emily Garrigan and Garret Lamason.

In cartoons, when a turtle is spooked, it retreats into and closes up its shell. While used for comic effect, this imagery is ...

A woman pleaded guilty Friday to attempting to smuggle 29 Eastern box turtles, a protected species, that were individually wrapped in socks inside a duffel bag as she tried to paddle in an ...

A woman from China pleaded guilty on Friday to attempting to smuggle 29 eastern box turtles, a protected species, across a Vermont lake into Canada by kayak. Wan Yee Ng, 41, was arrested on the ...

BURLINGTON, Vt. — A woman from China pleaded guilty on Friday to attempting to smuggle 29 eastern box turtles, a protected species, across a Vermont lake into Canada by kayak. Wan Yee Ng ...

The agents searched her duffle bag and found 29 live eastern box turtles individually wrapped in socks, the affidavit stated. Eastern box turtles are known to be sold on the Chinese black market ...