The 10-year project began in 2019, although the zoo was releasing turtles before that and has freed around 3,000 of them over ...

Menita Prasad knows that turtles don't get the same kind of attention from the public as a "cute, fluffy mammal."The director of animal care at the Greater Vancouver Zoo says that's one reason why ...

The western painted turtle is listed as an endangered species by the federal government and red-listed in B.C., meaning they face the highest risk of extinction in the province.

The zoo in Langley, B.C., is halfway through the project to collect western painted turtle eggs in the wild and hatch them, to increase their chances of survival when they are released.

The zoo in Langley, B.C., is halfway through the project to collect western painted turtle eggs in the wild and hatch them, to increase their chances of survival when they are released. Prasad said it ...

Menita Prasad, director of animal care at Greater Vancouver Zoo, poses with a western painted turtle in an undated handout photo. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Handout — Michael Jacobsen (Mandatory Credit ...

Each year, the Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation (ODWC) funds numerous research projects across the state, from ...

Members of the Interior Wildlife Rehabilitation Society travelled to Kelowna to release a western painted turtle that had been in their care for several weeks.

VANCOUVER – It’s been a bumper year for the Greater Vancouver Zoo’s project to help save the endangered western painted turtle, which is the only native freshwater turtle in British ...

VANCOUVER – It’s been a bumper year for the Greater Vancouver Zoo’s project to help save the endangered western painted turtle, which is the only native freshwater turtle in British ...