This wasn’t just any snapping turtle, this was a mother snapping turtle — and she was guarding all of her eggs. Stracher knew what she had to do. “If they were going to excavate the area ...

Harvesting turtles is particularly damaging because turtles have low fertility, low egg and hatchling survival and delayed ... special rule that prohibits the taking of Suwannee alligator snapping ...

Early in the 20th century, alligator snapping turtles were plentiful in river systems ... Trapping is particularly damaging because turtles have low fertility, low egg and hatchling survival, and ...