Tag: Turtles

Turtles are rapidly going extinct, researchers found, but many people have no idea they’re vanishing and are unaware of the valuable ecological roles they play. Whit Gibbons, professor emeritus of...

The Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada has declared the Midland painted turtle (Chrysemys picta marginata) a species of special concern under the Species at Risk Act....

The New York Chapter of The Wildlife Society, in cooperation with the New York State Department of Environment Conservation, will host a workshop on Blanding’s turtle habitat assessment May 25...

Amazon River turtles’ greatest threat is illegal harvesting, and since females, which grow larger and are easier to capture than males, are particularly targeted, concerns about the species’ future are...

Compared to other vertebrates, reptiles have been a mystery to science, and their distribution has been less understood than that of mammals, birds and amphibians. A recently completed global atlas...

Fencing just one side of a road cutting through wildlife habitat may minimize costs, but a new study from Ontario demonstrates that for reptiles, total fencing on both sides was...

Future generations of turtles in the Chicago area have new hope thanks to Forest Preserves of Cook County, Friends of the Chicago River, and USDA Wildlife Services.  For many aquatic...

With all six turtle species in the United States listed as either federally threatened or endangered, it’s important to think about human actions and lifestyle changes that can help conserve...

A new model combines ocean current information with sea turtle nesting data to find out which populations may have been the most affected by the 2010 Deepwater Horizon spill in...

The area around Mobile Bay, Alabama and the deserts of North America are among the areas most diverse for turtle species in the world, according to new research. Scientists looked...