4 votes Our taste for turtle soup nearly wiped out terrapins. Then Prohibition saved them. Posted July 18, 2019 by spit-evil-olive-tips Tags: history, prohibition, conservation, usa, extinction, terrapins, 19th century, soups, reptiles, wildlife, author.shoshi parks, source.npr https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2019/07/18/742326830/our-taste-for-turtle-soup-nearly-wiped-out-terrapins-then-prohibition-saved-them Link information This data is scraped automatically and may be incorrect. Published Jul 18 2019 Word count 1264 words