Turtle races — a little known threat to wild turtle populations

My team has been researching what may be among the oddest wildlife conservation problems — wild turtle exploitation for turtle races at county fairs and other festivals. Believe it or not these events are extremely popular at small town festivals, with over 500 ongoing annually, impacting thousands (we counted about 10,000, but is probably well over that) of wild turtles annually. Our research was published a few days ago and can be read here: https://webapps.fhsu.edu/ksherp/bibFiles/31884.pdf