"Sometimes conservation begins with answering a phone call." ...

Thanks to a collaborative effort between the zoo and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, confiscated box turtles get a second ...

The Rolling Hills Zoo has taken in 83 ornate box turtles confiscated from the illegal global wildlife trade.

Indian River Park is their natural habitat. They creep and crawl through the park — mostly unobserved — 24 hours a day, seven days a week. They move silently through their surroundings. Their natural ...

When Ann Berry Somers was 7 years old and growing up in North Carolina, she encountered a box turtle on a path. She picked up the small reptile and looked into its eyes. Instead of retreating into its ...

Wildlife conservation doesn't always happen in distant rainforests or on the African savanna. Sometimes, it begins with a ...

The Turtle Conservation Ecology Lab has been collecting data on Eastern box turtle habits since 2022. The team started ...

Each Eastern box turtle's shell has unique yellow or orange markings, like fingerprints, helping researchers identify individuals. Eastern box turtles are declining due to slow reproduction, habitat ...