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 ...

China’s exotic pet market is driving a spike in animal smuggling, U.S. wildlife officials say. But these turtles are getting ...

This year has been a great one for spotting Eastern Box Turtles (Terrapene carolina) in the Andorra Natural Area, the northern end of Wissahickon Park. We had three unique animals sighted: one ...

Investigators said that these turtles were going to be sent to Asia, where they would be sold as exotic pets.

A resident of Hong Kong was caught while paddling across a lake from Vermont to Canada in an inflatable kayak with the Eastern box turtles in a duffle bag, according to court records. By Johnny Diaz ...

The Wildlife Conservation Society’s Bronx Zoo has helped rescue and rehabilitate more than 800 North American box turtles ...

Unregulated trade—at 10 to 100 times legal levels—has caused Southeast Asian Box Turtles almost to vanish from parts of Indonesia where they were once common, according to a new report by the wildlife ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Photo Credit: iStock A roadside area in Cranford, New Jersey, became the site of a rescue effort when more than 100 box turtles, a ...