Canine powered conservation is helping researchers learn more about the internationally endangered wood turtle in Maine.

SOMERVILLE — A talk on Maine’s native turtle species with wildlife rehabilitator Pam Meier, founder and director of The Turtle’s Back, is set for 1:30 pm. Sunday, June 2, at Pumpkin Vine ...

Maine lawmakers have sent a bill to Gov. Janet Mills to bolster protections for seasonal wetlands that provide critical habitat for imperiled amphibians, insects, turtles and other wildlife. The bill ...

As a budding naturalist growing up in the concrete-heavy environs of Boston, I would regularly thumb through my family’s ...

Never take a wild turtle home with you. Turtle species native to Delaware are prohibited from being owned as pets, according ...

In New England, the North Atlantic right whale has been listed as endangered since the first days of the Endangered Species Act. The whale — which can weigh up to 140,000 pounds and measure 52 ...

Turtle smuggling is on the rise in the United States, ... Maine: A Place of Business; Tourney Time 2024; Good News 2023; High School Basketball Preview 23-24; 2021-2024 BDN Special Section Archive; ...

There are four species of sea turtles around Cape Cod: Kemp's ridley, Loggerhead, Green, and Leatherback. ... A rapidly warming Gulf of Maine is partly to blame.

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Sea turtle strandings have ticked up at an alarming rate in New England, but now the reptiles are close to receiving a lifeline from Congress to help them stay in the water.

Native turtles return to Yosemite after removal of more than 16,000 invasive bullfrogs As part of the study, 16,384 American bullfrogs, larvae and egg masses were removed from Yosemite National Park.

The last known remaining female Yangtze giant softshell turtle was found dead in Vietnam last week, leaving the species on the brink of extinction. A member of a non-profit turtle protection group ...

The Indian narrow-headed softshell turtle is considered endangered. The zoo is the first accredited organization in North America to hatch and raise the species that's native to South Asia.