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JAPANESEChelonian Issues.
A message from The Dragon Turtle (DT).
Key points
Many Chelonians are being treated very inhumanely around the world. They are traded for and kept as pets in squalid conditions, traded for flesh, for grotesque tourist souvenirs and for dubious medicinal purposes. Chelonians are both captured from the wild and commercially farmed. Though the DT is opposed to all forms of slavery, it must admit that farming Chelonians for abuse is better than abusing ones taken from wild populations. However, considering that most farm stock is taken from the wild, and that farms don't usually return Chelonians to the wild to restore the numbers lost - farms aren't as good as they could be.
Don't buy chelonian products, please. If you want a pet turtle - go captive bred rather than wild caught.
The Catching.
Chelonians never hurt a human except in self-defence, but they are trapped lethally and non-lethally, probed for with poles, drowned in nets, dug out of their burrows and caught by gut-hooks.
The Killing.
Chelonians die hard. Their metabolisms are slow and they suffer long. Many injuries that would kill a mammal quickly provide lingering death for reptiles. They may drown in nets or in traps. They typically get sliced open alive, to make up for human frailties like impotence and a desire to live forever.
Thats it for now, folks. Watch this space for some sad statistics and cruel details.
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