Feds Seek to Protect Map Turtles in 4 Gulf States, Georgia

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NEW ORLEANS—The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced Monday that it is proposing threatened status for the Pearl River map turtle, seeking to grant added federal protections to an at-risk species found only in Louisiana and Mississippi. “These native freshwater map turtles are at risk and need our help,” regional director Leopoldo Miranda-Castro said in […]

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