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The threat of traditional medicine: China's boom may mean doom for turtles

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Mongabay.com

Publication Date
2014-08-11

For thousands of years turtles have been used in Chinese traditional medicine to treat a wide variety of ailments and diseases. Originally published in the journal Radiata and recently republished HerpDigest David S. Lee and Liao Shi Kun write, “[In Chinese culture] turtles are symbolic of long life, personal wealth, fertility, strength, and happy households.”

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http://news.mongabay.com/2014/0808-crandall-turtles-traditional-medicine.html#rrfg6tWzF6rCLRod.99