Biologists have been working for three decades on a recovery project for the Illinois-endangered Blanding’s turtle, whose numbers were declining due to an increase in predators and habitat destruction ...

Biologists have been working for three decades on a recovery project for the endangered Blanding’s turtle throughout the state, including DuPage County, as numbers declined due to an increase in ...

The future of the Blanding’s Turtle is unknown. For now, some of the species are in a safe place. Last year, 31 adult and juvenile Blanding’s Turtles along with 18 eggs were rescued along Consumers ...

As turtles of all types deal with the grim prospect of crossing roads this time of year, a Lake County program to boost the population of one endangered species is finding success. And the ...

KELLOGG — Blanding’s turtles are disappearing from one of their most important natural habitats in North America that happens to be in Southeast Minnesota. Conservationists are hoping 146 acres of ...

CHICAGO (CBS)-- The Shedd Aquarium recently released 24 state-endangered Blanding's turtles onto a protected site in the DuPage County Forest Preserve system. The endangered Blanding's turtles ...

Ecologists from the Lake County Forest Preserves are testing an experimental treatment to protect Blanding’s turtles from a dangerous, potentially fatal fungal disease. In 2022, during routine health ...

The Iowa Department of Natural Resources is hoping to give a claw up to one of Iowa’s most elusive — and most threatened — turtle species by head-starting two Blanding’s turtle hatchlings at the ...

Two rare albino Blanding’s turtles have hatched at the offices of the Canadian Wildlife Federation, experts said. Jeffrey Eisen Unsplash Two “extremely rare” albino Blanding’s turtles have hatched in ...

The baby Blanding's turtles returned to the wetlands with tiny transmitters Dozens of Blanding's turtles were released back into their natural wetland habitat on June 4 Iowa Department of Natural ...

The world was very different when the "old lady" clawed out of her shell. It happened sometime before 1932, likely near Pinckney, Michigan, where the 3R11L turtle, a Blanding's turtle known ...