The class of 2024’s western pond turtles at Woodland Park Zoo have a final goal to reach before they can graduate for release to the wild: be big and healthy enough to escape the mouths of invasive ...

SEATTLE — The Woodland Park Zoo and Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife biologists (WDFW) are preparing more than 35 Western Pond turtles for release in the wild. As part of the Western Pond ...

“Pond turtle” is something of a misnomer, because this reptile more frequently lives in rivers and spends a lot of time in terrestrial habitats. As the West Coast's only native freshwater turtle, the ...

California’s native Western Pond Turtle tends to lie low during the winter. But in the warmer months, it’s at its most active. You might occasionally spot the turtle basking on a sunlit log around ...

The Fish and Wildlife Service has already received a lot of input on its proposal to list two species of turtles as threatened. Fish and Wildlife Service proposals to protect two species of western ...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) has proposed listing the northwestern pond turtle (Actinemys marmorata) and the southwestern pond turtle (Actinemys pallida) as threatened species under the ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – Nearly two dozen northwestern pond turtles can “just keep swimming” in the wild after the Oregon Zoo, wildlife officials and volunteers released them from captivity and into ...

This story has been updated with new information. The federal government's decision on whether to list a turtle as a threatened species could have a big impact on Salem. Salem officials are awaiting ...

SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) -- Scientists are hoping that a new conservation program will help restore the dwindling Western Pond Turtle population in the Marin Headlands. Jessie Bushell, the director of ...

Sidney Woodruff of UC Davis holds a northwestern pond turtle at a field site in Yosemite. (Courtesy Sidney Woodruff) The call of American bullfrogs was deafening when scientists from the University of ...