An eastern box turtle seized from a package intended to be shipped to Hong Kong. (U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service) The packages in a California mail facility were labeled as almonds and chocolate ...

An eastern box turtle kept as a pet has been rehabilitated by a rescue in New Jersey and got her first chance to see the sun in decades this month Charlotte Phillipp is a Weekend Writer-Reporter at ...

The red eyes of the “SAVE the BOX TURTLE” on Aug. 17 instantly compelled my attention. In June 1993, I thought I saw a rock in the middle of the road, however the rock moved and I stopped to see. It ...

A Hong Kong man pleaded guilty Friday to trafficking eastern box turtles from Southern California to China after wildlife inspectors discovered the endangered animals inside packages at a Torrance ...

As a budding naturalist growing up in the concrete-heavy environs of Boston, I would regularly thumb through my family’s collection of nature books and daydream about the creatures within. One species ...

Over the years Pennsylvania has appointed an assemblage of flora and fauna to be official representatives of the commonwealth. To that end, a congregation of various critters have risen to that lofty ...