Hi, my name is Joe and I spent some time this spring volunteering with Christina Davy on her Ontario Freshwater Turtle conservation project. The entire experience was eye opening to the world of conservation and how much the people working there invest their lives into maintaining our natural environment. Every person I met loves what [...]

Turtling with the team is an eye opening experience in many ways. Not only was I completely unaware of how pathetic stairmaster’s would forever appear to me after slogging around a marsh seven days in a row, but for some reason I forgot that snapping turtles existed. Encountering “snappers” while surveying for turtles meant they [...]

This summer we had the unfortunate experience of witnessing an adult female Blanding’s Turtle (Emydoidea blandingii) who sustained a severe, life threatening, injury.  She was found by beachgoers with a very deep gash in her shell. It appeared as though she was sliced by a boat propeller.  There was a lot of boating activity on [...]