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25/29 NATIVE TURTLE SPECIES ENDANGERED BECAUSE OF POACHING AND ILLEGAL TRADE
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Pilibhit: Illegal poaching and trading have left 25 out of 29 native turtle species into the endangered zone, posing as a serious threat to the turtles' survival in India according to data from Traffic India, a U.K. based wildlife trade monitoring network of the International Union for Conservation of Nature.