The turtles arrived on a flight from Hong Kong, officials said, where there's a lucrative black market for the animals.
officials say they found more than 1,500 live, exotic turtles abandoned in luggage at a Manila airport.
Hong Kong, the flight's origin, has a thriving black market for turtles, and Filipino officials said the lot could be worth $85,000.customs officials say they found the hundreds of live, exotic turtles in a suitcase left at Manila's Ninoy Aquino International Airport. "The 1,529 live turtles were found inside the left-behind luggage of a certain arriving Filipino passenger from flight PR 311 Hong Kong," the Customs agency said.
the country's lucrative black market has driven some species of freshwater turtles to near extinction. Golden Coin turtles, for instance, can go for more than $10,000.
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