The Pennsylvania House announced plans to designate the eastern box turtle as the official state reptile. The eastern box ...

A Susquehanna Valley lawmaker is proposing a bill that would make the eastern box turtle Pennsylvania's official state ...

The House Game and Fisheries Committee advanced a bill to establish an official state reptile. Here is what reptile and why.

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 ...

The eastern box turtles, known for the vivid yellow-orange ... Department of Justice attorneys say the native North American species is coveted by a rising middle class and are worth at least ...

Sai Keung Tin, 54, was sentenced on Friday for his role in trafficking eastern box turtles — a protected species, according to the U.S. Department of Justice. Tin, also known as Ricky Tin ...

He and Tin primarily trafficked the eastern box turtle, a subspecies of the common box turtle which is native to the U.S., according to prosecutors. Smuggling the species across international ...

The eastern box turtle, a subspecies of the common box turtle ... by the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora, an international agreement to protect ...