As Eastern box turtles vanish on Long Island, a 16-month-old Lab is sniffing them out

The Group for the East End, alongside Bark and Code, are taking specially trained "turtle-sniffing dogs" across Long Island ...

Turtle-sniffing dogs searching Long Island woods to protect species

Last year Anna Thonis, a postdoctoral researcher at New York University, launched a study of Long Island’s Eastern box turtles, a "species of special concern" in New York — not officially threatened ...

Cincinnati Zoo releases GPS-toting turtles in Mason

The Cincinnati Zoo and other groups are releasing previousy rescued turtles affixed with monitors in a statewide research ...
The Cincinnati Enquirer

Are there more box turtles in Greater Cincinnati this summer? Here's what we know

Now that it's officially summer in Greater Cincinnati, you may notice a familiar hard-shell creature: the box turtle. Eastern box turtles are most commonly found in the woodlands throughout Ohio and ...
WOSU Public Media

Rescued box turtles get a new home in the wild

When a school in West Carrollton was slated for demolition, two dozen box turtles living in the school courtyard needed a new ...
KCUR 89.3 FM

Box turtles are back for the summer. Here’s how to help them survive another year

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 ...