“The more people know about box turtles, the more friends they have.”
Turtle tracker John Rucker and his six
Boykin spaniels are on a mission to keep box turtles, North Carolina’s official
state reptile, safe from threats to their natural habitat in the 1,000-acre
Sherwood Forest neighborhood, the Guardian reports.
According to the report, a species in
decline, the slow-living box turtle is vulnerable to everything we do as
humans, and because they’re camouflaged and relatively secretive, they are hard
to find, which makes studying their population and health inherently difficult.
But with the help of his dogs, 74-year-old Rucker is determined to keep his “kinship” with the turtles going, the report stated further
.See below the embedded copy of the report
to read more about his turtle-saving mission, curtsy of the Guardian:
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