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Present and Future of the Green Turtle

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 April 2009

Tom Harrisson
Tom Harrisson
Affiliation:
Curator, Sarawak Museum; and Executive Officer, Sarawak Turtles Board
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“The most valuable reptile in the world”, is how American Professor Archie Carr describes the Green Turtle (Chelonia mydas). Unfortunately, this value is reflected again in the great reptile's alternative common name “the Edible Turtle”. Under the richly ironic scientific name of mydas, this ponderous marine has poured its rich juices into centuries of banquets proffered by the Lord Mayor of London or President of the United States. Genuine turtle soup is still a top status symbol in upper-class diet through most of the civilized world—except South-east Asia.

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Research Article
Information
Oryx , Volume 6 , Issue 5 , October 1962 , pp. 265 - 269
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Copyright © Fauna and Flora International 1962

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