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One man was duly arrested after officials at the Mae Sot wildlife checkpoint in Tak seized as many as 9,100 turtles stuffed in suitcases. The aquatic creatures were destined for customers in Bangkok.

A marine animals expert has warned that a proposed 12-kilometre-long beach sand reinforcement project in the Khao Lak coastal area of Phang Nga province could lead to the extinction of leatherback sea turtles.

The northeastern state of Assam was once rich in freshwater turtles, but habitat loss and over-exploitation -- they were once a popular local food -- have massively depleted their population.

An old friend of Thailand has returned from the sea, but vast drifts of plastic block more leatherback turtles from coming ashore to spawn.

Sixty-eight Olive ridley baby turtles have hatched from their nest in Phang Nga's Thai Muang district and made their way to the Andaman Sea late on Wednesday.

The Philippine Bureau of Customs (BOC) shows confiscated turtles on display during a press conference in Pasay City, north of Manila, Philippines, 03 March 2019 (issued 04 March 2019).

Out of a total of 57 leatherback turtles that hatched at their nest on Phang-Nga’s Khuk Khak Beach on Monday evening, 48 made it to the sea with a little human help along the way, a marine official said on Tuesday.

Banteay Meanchey provincial authorities on Sunday night intercepted a haul of nearly 700 tortoises and water monitor lizards imported from Thailand.

With the leatherback turtle already listed internationally as a critically endangered species, the National Parks, Wildlife and Plant Conservation Department yesterday expressed serious concern that none of the animals had returned to beaches in Phuket and Phang-nga to lay eggs since 2013.

TIGERS, ELEPHANTS, bears and pangolins are four of the most widely traded species in the Golden Triangle border area where Thailand, Laos and Myanmar meet, according to a report by WWF released yesterday.

More turtles were saved this week after being trapping in fishing nets near Phuket, and the local tour operator sees it as a positive sign that the area’s once-damaged marine ecosystem is recovering.

Two hawksbill sea turtles, which were found entangled in a fishing net drifting between Koh Racha and Ao Chalong in Phuket province on Tuesday afternoon, have been rescued and sent to the Department of Marine and Coastal Resources’ Phuket Marine Biological Centre.