Nova Scotia’s threatened wood turtles to get help from students
Wood turtles are a species at risk in Nova Scotia and a group of young students from Digby to Aylesford are working together to try to bring their numbers back up as part of the Youth Leading Environmental Change Program. Katie McLean is a species at risk biologist with the Clean Annapolis River Project and said the population is at risk. “So wood turtles are listed as threatened, which is at the higher end of the species at risk spectrum,” she said. McLean and the group were at the Fales River site just outside of Greenwood, N.S. They released two wood turtles, both with radio transmitters attached to their shells to monitor the reptiles. Click the link to read more…
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