Tiny steps, big journey as turtles return to Ohio wild

The Cincinnati Zoo and other groups are releasing previousy rescued turtles affixed with monitors in a statewide research ...

Back to the Wild, Cincinnati Zoo leads box turtle release across Ohio

The Cincinnati Zoo released eastern box turtles at Bowyer Farm in Mason. The turtles are fitted with GPS trackers to monitor ...
The Cincinnati Enquirer

Are there more box turtles in Greater Cincinnati this summer? Here's what we know

Now that it's officially summer in Greater Cincinnati, you may notice a familiar hard-shell creature: the box turtle. Eastern box turtles are most commonly found in the woodlands throughout Ohio and ...
WLWT

Box turtles get new home thanks to Cincinnati Zoo, ODNR

The Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden recently teamed up with the Ohio Department of Natural Resources to help a unique group of Dayton-area students find a new home. On Sept. 3 and 4, 21 box turtles ...
Columbus Dispatch

Ohio's turtle season is around the corner, hunters can pursue snappers starting in July

The backyard drama last week wasn't exactly cat-and-mouse. Imitating his purring ancestors, the neighborhood's resident black-and-white feline warily crept across wet grass to get a closer look at an ...
AOL

Ohio receives $500,000 for rare turtle research to help Blanding's, spotted turtles

Ohio has rare fishers roaming the woods, rare massasauga rattlesnakes and two other venomous snakes within its borders. Now the Buckeye State is on the hunt for Ohio's rare turtles. Ohio is one of two ...
KCUR 89.3 FM

Box turtles are back for the summer. Here’s how to help them survive another year

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 ...
journalgazette

Toledo researchers turn to dogs to round up turtles

TOLEDO – Before you can study turtles, you have to find them, and in an environment of hardwood forests, densely covered ground and damp bottomlands such as those at Oak Openings and some of the other ...