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Your support makes all the difference.A Philippine court has fined and sentenced 13 Vietnamese poachers to several months in prison after they were caught two years ago trying to flee with 101 critically endangered turtles, a conservationist group said yesterday.
The World Wide Fund for Nature said the sentences, handed down in the island of Palawan, could serve as a warning to foreign poachers.
In the past decade more than a thousand foreigners – mostly Chinese and Vietnamese – have been arrested and charged with poaching but sentences have been rare, the WWF said.
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