Biologists have been trapping turtles in southern areas of New Hampshire this summer as part of a five-state, three-year study to help figure out why some species are in decline.There are over 300 ...

After 20 years of trying to phase out commercial turtle trapping in Minnesota, lawmakers have banned the practice. Gov. Tim Walz signed legislation May 24 that outlaws commercial turtle trapping ...

TABOR, Ia. — Amber Sharp insists that trapping turtles isn’t so much an art form as it is an exercise in common sense. You need to keep an air pocket in the top of the trap so the turtles can come up ...

China's appetite for turtles is voracious. The nation of 1.2 billion people has nearly decimated its turtle population by eating them and grinding them up for folk medicines. That's one reason about ...