The Southern Maryland Chronicle on MSN

After St. Mary's seizure, DNR moves to tighten turtle rules

Two years after 43 box turtles were seized in St. Mary's County, DNR says current rules fail to curb poaching and plans ...
The Cincinnati Enquirer

Are there more box turtles in Greater Cincinnati this summer? Here's what we know

Now that it's officially summer in Greater Cincinnati, you may notice a familiar hard-shell creature: the box turtle. Eastern box turtles are most commonly found in the woodlands throughout Ohio and ...

New Jersey dumped 219 turtles in a river; now rescuers are building stations to help them survive winter season. Now their return to the wild is complicated

A significant number of turtles have been rescued from a river in New Jersey, sparking urgent rehabilitation efforts. The rescued turtles include native Eastern box turtles alongside non-native ...
The Reptile Zoo on MSN

Common snapping turtles have a surprisingly carnivorous appetite

Common snapping turtles have a carnivorous side, feeding on animal prey as part of their role as freshwater predators. Other ...
nationalzoo

Critically Endangered Bourret’s Box Turtles Hatch at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo

Keepers at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo’s Reptile Discovery Center are celebrating a conservation success five years in the making: a pair of Bourret’s box turtle hatchlings. These young are the ...
gpb

Volunteers round up box turtles on Tybee

Share this page on Twitter Share this page on Facebook Share this page on Email Share this page on Print Early Friday morning, about a dozen volunteers scattered across a wooded patch of land on Tybee ...
Iowa Public Radio

Box turtles are back for the summer. Here’s how to help them survive another year

Ornate box turtles and their kin face steep challenges in today’s world, but people can help out by raising the deck height on their mowers, allowing turtles to cross the road and not taking them home ...
Yahoo

More than 100 nonnative box turtles spark a roadside rescue in New Jersey

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Photo Credit: iStock A roadside area in Cranford, New Jersey, became the site of a rescue effort when more than 100 box turtles, a ...
NPR

A 100-year study could help save box turtles

An ambitious long-term study of box turtles seeks to study the population across North Carolina to determine the health of the species over a hundred years. With a story about an animal that inspires ...
Yahoo

More than 100 box turtles dumped along riverbank overnight in New Jersey

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. More than 100 box turtles that are not native to New Jersey mysteriously appeared along a Cranford roadway this week, prompting ...

Man Holds a Newborn Turtle to Show Its Size, and Everyone Is Smitten

Watch as he carefully helps dig them out of the dirt. We didn’t realize what we were looking at until he pointed out, “Baby ...
Panda

Box turtles knocked out by excessive trade

Unregulated trade—at 10 to 100 times legal levels—has caused Southeast Asian Box Turtles almost to vanish from parts of Indonesia where they were once common, according to a new report by the wildlife ...