re: Texas Monthly: The Great Cajun Turtle Heist (article about outlaw turtle hunters)

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s the juice really worth the squeeze on cases like this?

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Yes. Wildlife is a public resource. If there are no penalties and repercussions, people like this will act with impunity until the resource is gone.

Big turtles grow slow, and reproduce late in life. They are extremely vulnerable to exploitation.

These people were ignorant, disgusting poachers, drug addicts, and welfare slobs. The word is better off without them.