One day in August 2018, conservation police officers in upstate New York busted a retired school teacher who had collected nearly 300 reptiles in his house. He had rare and threatened reptiles, ...

While spiny softshell turtles are threatened in Vermont and spotted turtles are endangered, wood turtles could soon be threatened in the state due to land use change. That is why the state’s Fish & ...

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Massachusetts is home to 10 native species of turtle, six of which are threatened or endangered. A new book highlighting the biology and conservation of one in particular has been compiled, and the ...

CHEBOYGAN COUNTY, MI – Deep in the woods of Northern Michigan, a blonde labradoodle darted off into the underbrush with his nose to the ground as a group of scientists chased behind him. The working ...

Bumpy-backed wood turtles — about the size of dessert plates and typically an earthy green-brown in color with yellow markings — were once quite common across the northeastern United States and upper ...

A group of conservation organizations is calling on the federal government to list the Maryland-native wood turtle as an endangered species. More than 60 organizations sent a letter to the U.S. Fish ...

The Little Traverse Bay Band of Odawa Indians’ Natural Resources Department has been working to conserve the threatened wood turtle. Their top team member is Mooz, a 9-year-old labradoodle who has ...

WASHINGTON— The Center for Biological Diversity and 66 organizations and individuals today urged the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to protect wood turtles as endangered under the Endangered Species ...

The wood turtle that Rick Koval and I found during the Fourth of July holiday weekend almost set a record. Our wood turtle measured nine inches in length, a mere three-eighths of an inch off the world ...

MINNEAPOLIS — In an undisclosed location south of the Twin Cities, Minnesota Zoo conservation biologist Tricia Markle is hunting for wood turtles. Even with an antenna tracking the turtle’s movement, ...