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Investigators with the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission say 52-year-old Robert Bunting, on multiple occasions, attempted to take several freshwater turtles from their natural habitat.

A global wildlife summit in Panama will decide whether to take measures to protect the translucent glass frog and 12 types of freshwater turtles in its final week, which kicked off Monday.

Together, they are the only native freshwater turtles in California. Yet the western pond turtle has disappeared from over half of its range, which stretches from Baja, California to Washington state.

Australian freshwater turtles are a vital part of healthy waterways, but we don’t know enough about them. A new roundup of turtle research aims to buck the trend.