The Global Turtle Crisis—A Wildlife Trafficking Challenge Like No Other

Last summer I attended the 22^nd Annual Symposium on the Conservation and Biology of Tortoises and Freshwater Turtles (Tuscson, Arizona USA). This was only the 4^th of these annual symposia that I have been to, but as with the others I came away with a huge amount of information along with new friends and colleagues. In fact, it was only 2 years earlier during my attendance of the 20^th Annual Symposium that the idea for this Wildlife Trafficking Special Issue came into focus during a meeting of the Chelonian Conservation and Biology editorial team. With so many of threats facing turtles, none is more devastating than the trafficking of turtles for the pet trade and other markets around the world. Often referred to as the Asian Turtle Crisis, this trafficking is driven by global supply chains that dodge enforcement to pull 10s of thousands of turtles if...