The Sedgwick County Zoo shared that the hatching of the McCord's box turtle is "an important milestone for conservation" Ingrid Vasquez is a Digital News Writer at PEOPLE. She graduated from The ...

MONROE, La. (KNOE) - Meet the box turtles at the Louisiana Purchase Gardens and Zoo in Monroe! They are very common in ...

BURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) — A woman from China pleaded guilty on Friday to attempting to smuggle 29 eastern box turtles, a protected species, across a Vermont lake into Canada by kayak. Wan Yee Ng, 41, was ...

Sep 13, 2020 Sep 13, 2020 Updated Apr 13, 2021 Eastern box turtles, which can be found in back yards in the Aiken area, are under threat from the illegal wildlife trade. When confiscated by law ...

A 54-year-old man pleaded guilty Friday to federal charges after wildlife inspectors at a Torrance mail facility intercepted packages containing protected eastern box turtles addressed to one of the ...

The Maryland Zoo in Baltimore experienced an outbreak of Frog virus-3 (FV3)-like ranavirus during the summer of 2011, during which 14 of 27 (52%) of its captive eastern box turtles (Terrapene carolina ...

No wonder the man had wanted to leave the security area without declaring anything! The tortoises are protected by the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora ...

An Egyptian tortoise and a Northern Spider tortoise, both of which are on the critically endangered species list, were taken ...