LETTERS [June 1996]
From ANIMAL PEOPLE, June 1996:
Moving fast for
turtles
Nice article. Thanks. One
thing. It was actually turtle experts
from all over the U.S. who wrote to
the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service at
request of the New York Turtle and
Tortoise Society and Humane
Society of the U.S., stopping the
proposed export of 10,000 Louisiana
box turtles. I wish the turtle experts
in NYTTS could take the credit
alone, but we’re just “amateurs”
who know a lot of pro-conservation
scientists who were willing to write.
(One wrote a 20-page letter against
the quota.) It was that kind of overwhelming
support for box turtles,
from all over, that forced the U.S.
government to do what they did. As
I previously said, “Science wins.”
––Allen Salzberg
N.Y. Turtle & Tortoise Society
New York, N.Y.