Plus, see-through animals; a new game-changing plastics law
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| | Yuan Xie smuggled hundreds of turtles to China from the United States, including eastern box turtles like the ones shown above. That was before U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service agents arrested him for conspiring to illegally traffic the animals from his house in Oregon.
His sentencing included working with a wildlife crime researcher. As part of his restitution, he searches online for illegal ads for animal products, sharing those findings with researchers who try to help prevent wildlife crime. Other convicted traffickers in Oregon are sentenced to make amends for their crimes by providing similar community service.
Delcianna Winders of Vermont Law School tells Nat Geo that restorative justice has “long been overlooked” in criminal wildlife cases but could lead to better policies and benefit victims and perpetrators alike.
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| | On full display: There are 156 known species of glass frogs, living mostly along streams and rivers in the tropical forests of Ecuador, Colombia, and Panama. In the photo above, Nat Geo Explorer Joel Sartore captures the translucent skin of the sun glass frog, revealing the amphibian’s internal organs, bones, and muscles. | | | |
 | | PHOTOGRAPH BY JACK ZHI/AUDUBON PHOTOGRAPHY AWARDS | | | |
 | | PHOTOGRAPH BY HANNAH WHITAKER, NAT GEO IMAGE COLLECTION | | Environmental change: California’s new plastics law could force the rest of the nation to cut down on its polluting materials. The legislation mandates, among other things, a reduction in the single-use plastics sold in the state. It also requires 65 percent of plastics to be recycled within a decade—an ambitious goal. Plastics makers will have to foot the bill for recycling. The law could have ripple effects across the nation, but not all recycling proponents are pleased, Laura Parker reports. Read the full story. (Pictured above, one million plastic beverage bottles are purchased every minute worldwide.)
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 | | I had no intention of becoming an activist. … I have to come into the spotlight in order to protect the animals. Once you’ve stepped forward, it is very hard to hide behind the camera again. | | | | Xi Zhinong | Wildlife photographer, Nat Geo Explorer
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 | | PHOTOGRAPH BY MARK_KOSTICH/SHUTTERSTOCK | | | Jaw-some finds: Chances are slim—we hope—that you’ll come close enough to a shark to be able to touch it. But beaches and riversides are awash with their teeth, both fossilized and modern. Sharks could lose 20,000 to 50,000 chompers in a lifetime, which means their teeth aren’t as difficult to find as you might think. The key, of course, is starting at the right spot. Here are eight more tips to help with a search. (Pictured above, a fossil tooth belonging to an extinct shark.) | | | |
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