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If You Want to Save the Turtle, Eat the Turtle

By Yolarnie Amepou Papua New Guinea's only freshwater turtle scientist, Yolarnie Amepou; pictured here in 2014 with another of Papua New Guinea’s 12 freshwater turtles, scientific name: Elseya rhodini. Turtles are often portrayed as gentle, solitary creatures, gliding through the ocean or basking quietly on distant beaches, separate from people. In these stories, any human interaction is seen as intrusion, and taking one for food as harm. These were not our stories, yet over

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