The animal, weighing approximately 12kg, is currently being cared for before being released back into its natural habitat.

FILE - A male Eastern Box Turtle moves across a path at Wildwood Lake Sanctuary in Harrisburg, Pa., May 2 ... thanks to habitat loss, vehicle strikes and people taking them in as pets, according ...

Not far from the skyscrapers of downtown Pittsburgh, a successful effort to reconnect fragmented wildlife habitat flows through the city’s suburbs. Behind houses, roads and parking lots flow the ...

The goal, under the 1999 Marine Life Protection Act, was to create a science-based system to rebuild ecosystems after decades ...

After hours of debate, commissioners tabled the decision on the one million-square-foot Wood Ave development until July amid ...

At this Parkton property, just below the Pennsylvania ... the bog turtle is facing extinction due to residential and commercial development that threatens its wetland habitat.

Pa., May 2, 2009. Rockalina is an eastern box turtle. The brightly colored reptiles were once plentiful throughout parts of the East Coast, scampering around ponds and into people's backyards. But ...

“This area of Pennsylvania is an important wildlife habitat connectivity corridor with State Game Lands comprising a large portion of protected lands. The parcel will also create additional ...

"She's gotten big, so we are working to get her a new updated turtle tank and an updated habitat for her to live at here at the nature center,"Nusstein said. Volunteers at the park have been ...