Mattapoisett Land Trust event a turtle success
The weekends are for taking it slow. And that’s just what members of the Mattapoisett Land Trust did on Saturday with a presentation about turtles.
Marla Isaac, from the New England Reptile and Raptor Center, came by the Mattapoisett Friends Meeting House on Saturday to show off a variety of turtles, as well as teach people about protecting the current turtle populations.
Isaac has been rehabilitating and taking care of turtles since the 1970s, and said she has seen the eastern box turtle population decrease significantly since then.
“They were all over southeastern Massachusetts,” she said. “No one would have imagined their decline.”
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