turtle for the pot

This was the heading for the story on the front page of the Post Courier, 8th March. It was being sold at the Boroko shopping centre for K30. It is a protected specimum. What is the grammar - third declension neuter noun? Or fifth declension? I've forgotten. Doesn' matter, the plight of the turtle is more important and the writer hopes that "someone" bought the animal and released it back to sea. It's funny how the environmental and species sensitivities of the West (now that it has successfully itself wiped out more species than any other socio-political grouping and created global greenhouse conditions which effect detrimentally the health and lives of everyone) become shocked by turtle hunting, elephant tusk hunting, bear bile cruelty and sodium cyannide stunning of fish to devastate the fish stocks. The West didn't think it was doing anything wrong when it was wiping out species of plants and animals and butterflies. Now the West decides issues of protection. I hate to see cruelty too and the devastation of species but as with nearly everything the West is not wise until after the fact and then it wants to stop the game for everyone else too. "OK guys, we've had enough fun, therefore you can stop playing too. No, it doesn' matter whether you still want to have fun killing turtles and bears and tigers and elephants and whales. We have had enough fun so you too must stop having fun. Because WE said so!". Would that the day might come quickly when the West becomes wise before the event - such as its hypocritical position on Iran.