TY  - BOOK
AU  - Laufer,Peter
TI  - Dreaming in Turtle: A Journey Through the Passion, Profit, and Peril of Our Most Coveted Prehistoric Creatures 
SN  - 9781250128096
PY  - 2018///
CY  - New York
PB  - St. Martin's Press
KW  - Turtles
KW  - Effect of human beings on
KW  - Conservation
KW  - Social aspects
N1  - "November 2018"--Title page verso; Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-277) and index; Prologue: Operating instructions for the journalist -- The majestic turtle -- The timeless allure -- The voracious consumers -- The tawdry marketplaces -- The prodigious farms -- The illicit hunts -- The wiley smugglers -- The frustrated cops -- The pitiful casualties -- The conflicted public and the dedicated conservationists -- The imminent future -- Epilogue: A call to action
N2  - "Traces the ongoing challenges to endangered turtle populations, evaluating the global trade practices, limited supply, and increasing demand in high-population world regions that have compromised conservation efforts." --
ER  -