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Pearl River Map Turtles could delay One Lake project. What exactly are these turtles?

A potential new setback to the contentious One Lake development project comes down to the Pearl River Map Turtle, a species named for its distinct map-like shell pattern, that is unique to the Pearl ...
The Advocate

Rare Louisiana map turtle secures new protections in hopes of keeping it from going extinct

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service will add new protections for a rare turtle whose ridged shell looks like a topographic map, with the goal of keeping it from going extinct. The federal agency has ...
Ottawa Citizen on MSN

Learning about how map turtles hibernate might help protect a vulnerable species

Carleton University’s Grégory Bulté has been studying the northern map turtles of Opinicon Lake since 2003.
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At risk but holding on: Northern map turtles are still common in this eastern Ontario lake

Grégory Bulté, an Ottawa-area biologist, holds a map turtle shell that shows the distinctive 'map' pattern that gives the turtle its name. (Dan Taekema/CBC - image credit) The northern map turtle is ...
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Why a turtle die-off has this Ottawa researcher worried about warming winters

Grégory Bulté was snorkelling in the cold waters of Ontario's Opinicon Lake when he noticed the first dead turtle.
Center for Biological Diversity

Pearl River Map Turtles Finally Protected in Mississippi, Louisiana

JACKSON, Miss.— In response to a 2010 petition from the Center for Biological Diversity, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service issued a final rule today protecting the Pearl River map turtle as ...
The Conversation

Northern map turtles survive cold winter conditions by staying active under ice

Jessica Robichaud received funding from Carleton University, Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC), the Canadian Foundation for Innovation and the Ontario Research Fund Small ...