I never thought I'd be rescuing a turtle in Parsons Pond," Nevin Blanchard told CBC Radio. The creature, he said, was more than six feet long, and likely weighed 500 or 600 pounds.

The rampant rise of red-eared terrapins is posing an ecological threat in a park in Nagakute, Aichi Prefecture. The turtles have been rapidly breeding in a popular pond in Irigaike Park since ...

An alligator snapping turtle found in an irrigation pond in Kurume, Fukuoka Prefecture is seen in this Dec. 13, 2019 photo provided by the Kurume Municipal Government. KURUME, Fukuoka -- A ...

“The turtles are basically just going about their daily business and have to cross the lines to get to a pond,” a railway spokesman told AFP.

The Wildlife Crime Control Bureau (WCCB), Western Region, Navi Mumbai, identified the recovered turtles as eight Japanese Pond Turtles (Mauremys japonica) and four Scorpion Mud Turtles, also known ...

The turtles, identified as Japanese Pond Turtles and Scorpion Mud Turtles, are protected under CITES and Indian wildlife laws.