APP.com: Fences to be erected to protect terrapins from cars
Baby diamondback terrapins, hatched from eggs retrieved from road-killed females,
are released after being head started at the Richard Stockton College “Turtle Farm.”
Photo credit: terrapinconservation.org
Along Great Bay Boulevard, almost 72 percent of terrapins that had been observed by conservationists and researchers were found dead in a four-year period when mortality rates were calculated, Conserve Wildlife of New Jersey has announced. Many adult female terrapins have been killed by drivers, because often drivers are unaware that female terrapins cross the road to find nesting sites. They may even nest alongside the road. A road like Great Bay Boulevard next to saltmarsh offers a high location and the road's edges contain sand and gravel where terrapins can lay eggs.
Posted by WILDNEWJERSEY at 3/29/2010 1:00 PM 
Categories: Reptiles
Tags: conserve wildlife of nj terrapins great bay boulevard nesting saltmarsh
Categories: Reptiles
Tags: conserve wildlife of nj terrapins great bay boulevard nesting saltmarsh
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