World Turtle News, 09/14/2018

Shedd Aquarium to help effort to save Blanding’s turtles in DuPage

The Shedd Aquarium is joining the Forest Preserve District of DuPage County’s long-running effort to save an endangered species of turtles.

Forest preserve officials this week said the Chicago-based aquarium will become the latest partner in the district’s Blanding’s turtle recovery program, which raises hatchlings in captivity before releasing them into the wild.

The district has been conducting the program since 1996 to try to rebuild the reptile’s numbers in DuPage.

“Blanding’s turtles are nowhere near being recovered,” said Tom Velat, the district’s ecology coordinator. “Scaling up of the program will be necessary to recover the species.”

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