Federal wildlife managers are proposing endangered species protections for a rare freshwater turtle found only in Louisiana and Mississippi. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced on Monday that ...

NORTH ROYALTON, Ohio -- On Christmas morning 2019, our daughter, Sarah, came downstairs to find that Santa had left a turtle care kit under the tree. Two weeks later, a Mississippi map turtle joined ...

JACKSON, Miss.— In response to a 2010 petition from the Center for Biological Diversity, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service issued a final rule today protecting the Pearl River map turtle as ...

NEW ORLEANSNEW ORLEANS — The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced Monday that it is proposing threatened status for the Pearl River map turtle, seeking to grant added federal protections to an ...

NEW ORLEANS, La. (WLOX) - Two species of turtles found in Mississippi rivers may soon have new protections under the Endangered Species Act. The Pascagoula map turtle and the Pearl River map turtle ...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The federal government says it will decide whether protection is needed for a freshwater turtle found only in Mississippi and a related species found in Mississippi and Louisiana.

NEW ORLEANS— As the result of a lawsuit by the Center for Biological Diversity and Healthy Gulf, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today proposed to protect Pearl River map turtles as a threatened ...