The 10-year project began in 2019, although the zoo was releasing turtles before that and has freed around 3,000 of them over the past decade.

It's been a bumper year for the Greater Vancouver Zoo's project to help save the endangered western painted turtle, which is the only native freshwater turtle in British Columbia.

I have a special interest in snapping turtles because I grew up within an easy commute of Philadelphia and went to college ...

Members of the Interior Wildlife Rehabilitation Society travelled to Kelowna to release a western painted turtle that had ...

Highway 93 cuts through the heart of the Mission Valley and crucial habitat for turtles and other wildlife. Researchers with ...

A western painted turtle has been returned home to Still Pond in Kelowna's Wilden community. The small creature had been in ...

When wetlands are disturbed by development, or for other reasons, turtles might build their nests by roadsides or even in people’s lawns, said Craig Paterson, biology team manager with the ...

The Interior Wildlife Rehabilitation Society released a turtle back into a Kelowna pond after it was brought to them with a broken shell earlier this year.