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, ...

The Little Traverse Bay Band of Odawa Indians’ Natural Resources Department has been working to conserve the threatened wood ...

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 ...

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Mooz the labradoodle is helping scientists from the Little Traverse Bay Band of Odawa Indians study the threatened wood ...

Sometimes, if you want to help a threatened species recover, you have to do more than count them. Sometimes you have to dig deep and help them fight off their enemies. Take the wood turtle in the ...

BALTIMORE (WBFF) — The Maryland Zoo in Baltimore announced theywill be raising wood turtles to be eventually released into the forests of western Maryland sometime in 2023. Maryland Zoo contact, Mike ...

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 ...

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, ...

As a kid growing up on the East Coast of the United States, I grew up a huge fan of the eastern box turtle. They’re a mostly terrestrial species of that you can find in the forest, in your lawn or ...