A man who trapped and shipped thousands of freshwater turtles from Georgia to California is headed to prison. Nathan Horton trapped the turtles using nets that are illegal under Georgia law, according ...

MINNEAPOLIS — Trapping turtles for profit will soon be a thing of the past in Minnesota. Starting next January, commercial harvesting of the state's wild turtles will no longer be legal. It's a move ...

After 20 years of trying to phase out commercial turtle trapping in Minnesota, lawmakers have banned the practice. Gov. Tim Walz signed legislation May 24 that outlaws commercial turtle trapping ...

The shelled inhabitants of Butler's Pond in Quincy will be temporarily relocated to the New England Wildlife Center before the city starts a $1.4 million pond restoration project. The plan is to ...

Methods used in wildlife ecology can influence population- and community-level estimates, such as species richness, sex ratio, age and size structure, occupancy and detection probabilities, and ...

Kudos to the Senate Environmental Conservation Committee and Chair Sen. Mark J. Grisanti, R-Buffalo, for holding back a destructive bill to legalize the lethal trapping of our state reptile, the ...