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Why scientists are attaching tiny GPS devices to eastern box turtles

On a warm morning in Virginia, a wildlife researcher walks slowly through a patchwork of forest and farmland, eyes scanning ...
WRIC

PHOTOS: 4 baby Eastern box turtles born at Virginia wildlife center

RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — Four baby Eastern box turtles — a species with a plummeting population in Virginia — were recently hatched at the Southwest Virginia Wildlife Center, including rare turtle twins ...
Iowa Public Radio

After nearly 50 years cooped up inside, Rockalina the turtle finds the great outdoors

Garden State Tortoise founder Chris Leone gets plenty of requests to take in turtles people can no longer care for. Rockalina's case was different. "Like we do in any rescue, we ask to see the photos ...
Yahoo

Horse placenta helping turtle hit by car, left with broken, missing shell heal in DC

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. WASHINGTON (DC News Now) — Three months after a car hit an eastern box turtle in D.C., leaving her shell severely broken, the ...
Animal Welfare Institute

Evaluating the Suitability of Confiscated and Rehabilitated Eastern Box Turtles for Release back into the Wild

The eastern box turtle is collected in enormous numbers for the illegal wildlife trade. Only a portion of this trade is detected, and when it is, wildlife agencies must decide what to do with those ...