Consuming sea turtle meat can cause chelonitoxism, a type of fatal food poisoning that has no cure The outlet said they died from chelonitoxism, a type of food poisoning that only occurs from eating ...

Hunting turtles for meat is threatening their breeding ground and population, a Kiunga Marine Conservation National Park official has said. According to officials of the World Wide Fund for Nature ...

Zanzibar, Tanzania — Eight children and an adult died after eating sea turtle meat on Pemba Island in the Zanzibar archipelago, while 78 other people were hospitalized, authorities said Saturday. Sea ...

A tragedy has occurred in Zanzibar. Eight children and an adult are dead after eating contaminated sea turtle meat, while another 78 people were hospitalized, authorities told the Associated Press on ...

At dozens of beaches around the world, huge female sea turtles come back each year at about the same time. They slowly haul themselves out of the water near the places they themselves hatched, dig ...

If you walked into an upscale New York City restaurant 150 years ago, there was one staple you’d be almost certain to see on the menu: turtle soup. But unlike some other food trends you may be ...

The ban on turtle meat consumption on Yadua Island, off the west coast of Vanua Levu, didn’t happen without a good fight. The ban on turtle meat consumption on Yadua Island, off the west coast of ...

The deaths first appeared in a British Broadcasting Corp. (BBC) dispatch in December 2024 and was picked up all over the ...

Nine people including 8 children are dead and at least 78 others have been hospitalized after eating sea turtle meat on an East African island, multiple media outlets are reporting. According to the ...

KHAN YUNIS, Palestinian Territories — With food scarce in the besieged and war-battered Gaza Strip, some desperate families have turned to eating sea turtles as a rare source of protein. Once the ...

Never having eaten turtle before, the first thing Edward Kim did when he got a few pounds of snapping-turtle meat was panfry some. “I cooked it really quickly—I saw how quickly it was tensing up, and ...