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 ...

In just two years, the Bronx Zoo has helped rehabilitate hundreds of turtles that are believed to have been collected from the wild for the illegal pet 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 ...

Ornate box turtles face threats from habitat loss, climate change and being hit by cars. Scientists urge the public not to take wild turtles home as pets or for turtle races. If helping a turtle cross ...

This year has been a great one for spotting Eastern Box Turtles (Terrapene carolina) in the Andorra Natural Area, the northern end of Wissahickon Park. We had three unique animals sighted: one ...

A roadside area in Cranford, New Jersey, became the site of a rescue effort when more than 100 box turtles, a species not native to the state, were seen making their way toward traffic near the Rahway ...

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Great Smoky Mountains National Park is one of the most biodiverse places in the world, so it’s no surprise that many of the plants and animals chosen as symbols of the two states it straddles - North ...

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 ...