ASHEVILLE, N.C.— The Center for Biological Diversity filed a petition today urging the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to protect the southern population of the bog turtle as a federal endangered ...

ASHEVILLE, N.C.— The Center for Biological Diversity and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service reached an agreement today that requires the agency to make decisions on protecting two imperiled southern ...

ATLANTA - The Center for Biological Diversity filed a lawsuit today against the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, accusing the agency of delaying critical Endangered Species Act (ESA) protections for ...

MILLBROOK, N.Y. (AP) -- The federal government is giving private landowners money to protect one of the world’s smallest and rarest turtles, a species that is losing habitat throughout its range from ...

There are fewer bog turtles because of their rare − and shrinking − habitat, along with dangers posed by poaching and the illegal pet trade. Zoo Knoxville's head-start program brings in bog turtle ...

Disappearing habitat threatens North America’s tiniest turtle. A bog turtle, North America’s tiniest turtle, is no bigger than your hand. Its habitat is disappearing, and it needs help. Scientists are ...

Here, hopefully, lives a turtle at least 49 years old, the oldest documented bog turtle ever found. Ole 9322, a female, is missing toes, probably from a predator encounter, and was first marked with ...

Q. I'm a children's author living in New Jersey and researching a book about the bog turtle. Many people call the bog turtle "the smallest turtle in North America." Can you help me confirm this as a ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. MILLBROOK, N.Y. -- The federal government is giving private landowners ...

On a mild but windy day, along the Upper Salem River in South Jersey, a small group of conservationists trekked in their waders through muddy ground to search for endangered bog turtles. They’d like ...

Necropsy of two wild-caught bog turtles, Glyptemys muhlenbergii, found freshly dead in 1982 and 1995 under similar conditions in North Carolina and Virginia revealed large numbers of bacterial ...

To mitigate habitat loss and increase the reproductive success of threatened Bog Turtles (Glyptemys muhlenbergii), managers often improve or restore open-canopy nesting habitats within or adjacent to ...