Box Turtle Working Group Plans

The Box Turtle Working Group was formed at the 2005 NEPARC meeting. Since then the group has compiled and developed educational materials that will help efforts to conserve the eastern box turtle. Project examples include producing a postcard encouraging people to leave box turtles in the wild, developing an informational webpage to direct people to existing educational materials, and compiling a list of veterinarians and wildlife rehabilitators that work on turtles. For 2010 the group will be working on box turtle release guidelines for native wild turtles temporarily held in captivity (e.g. for rehabilitation) and a box turtle identification and comparison key.