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 ...
Iowa Public Radio

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 ...
East End Beacon

Where Did All the Turtles Go? A New Survey Seeks Answers

On days when Dr. Anna Thonis is in the field searching for eastern box turtles, her volunteers fan out throughout a large ...
WTOC-TV

Volunteers rescue box turtles on Tybee Island

TYBEE ISLAND, Ga. (WTOC) - A group of biologists, neighbors and volunteers gathered on Tybee Island Friday for a box turtle rescue mission. The terrestrial creatures have a habitat on North Beach near ...
The Topeka Capital-Journal

Box turtles face threats in Kansas. How to help them thrive

Ornate box turtles face threats from habitat loss, climate change and being hit by cars. Scientists urge the public not to take wild turtles home as pets or for turtle races. If helping a turtle cross ...