Dozens of wildlife organizations have come together to urge the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to declare the wood turtle an ...

MICHIGAN., (WPBN/WGTU) -- The wood turtle’s population found in Michigan and 16 other states has been declining in recent ...

WASHINGTON— The Center for Biological Diversity and 66 organizations and individuals today urged the U.S. Fish and Wildlife ...

The news for wood turtles in Minnesota is not good. According to the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources’ Wood Turtle Habitat Conservation Plan, finalized in 2020, declining population trends ...

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 decline of wood turtle populations in Pennsylvania and a dozen other northeastern states led to a 2020-21 federal grant of nearly $1 million for habitat work, battling against the illegal pet ...

To ensure a future for these endangered turtles, scientists need to know how many are left Stephen Taglieri Wood turtles are made for their environment. They blend in with muddy rocks in the streambed ...

Turt, a wood turtle, waits to be photographed during a wildlife photography workshop at Vermont Institute of Natural Science, in Quechee, being taught by Scott Miller, of Norwich, left, who is helping ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has tabbed $3.85 million in federal funding to help support 16 research and restoration projects across the Great Lakes region, ...