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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Photo Credit: iStock A roadside area in Cranford, New Jersey, became the site of a rescue effort when more than 100 box turtles, a ...

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 ...

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 ...

Bright yellow and orange markings give this Eastern box turtle a distinctive appearance as he rests beside his caretaker. Native to the eastern United States, this little turtle has a patterned shell ...

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 ...

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 ...

Two years after 43 box turtles were seized in St. Mary's County, DNR says current rules fail to curb poaching and plans ...

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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 ...