Pressed by environmentalists, the Fish and Wildlife Service today proposed protecting the Pearl River map turtle and four other map turtles found in Southern states as threatened under the Endangered ...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service will add new protections for a rare turtle whose ridged shell looks like a topographic map, with the goal of keeping it from going extinct. The federal agency has ...

Unregulated commercial collection of freshwater turtles in southern and midwestern states is depleting native turtle populations, including those of rare map turtle species that may already be at risk ...