Devros weighs and tags the map turtle before placing her back into the sand. “They’re really charismatic,” said Devros, adding that the species is important to the local ecology; they eat invasive ...

A Pearl River map turtle sits on the beach along the Bogue Chitto creek at Walker’s Bridge Water Park in southern Mississippi in September 2024. Flood relief at a cost ...

The Pearl River Map Turtle recently qualified as an endangered species. The species is native to the MS Pearl River.

Common map turtles are less tolerant of poor water conditions than other types of freshwater turtles and, thus, can be used as environmental indicators. Species status: ...

Most Pearl River map turtles spend their entire lives within 2 or 3 river miles and can only survive in freshwater. “They're very much attached to a home range and understanding what is home and ...

Map turtles serve as indicators of river health; poor water quality can devastate their populations. In addition to habitat loss and degradation from dams, floodplain clearing and river channelization ...

The Barbour's map turtle is one of the rarest of map turtles, found only in the Apalachicola River system and nearby systems of Florida, Georgia and Alabama in the southeastern United States, where ...

The northern map turtle is considered a species at risk in Canada, ... It's not just in the water they face danger, he added, noting they're frequently hit by vehicles when crossing roads.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service ruled in favor of protecting the Pearl River map turtle under the Endangered Species Act on Tuesday. The decision puts a bump in the road for a potential dam ...