We’ve released over 80 turtles in the past four months and we have many more still in care that we expect to release before October. This Eastern Painted Turtle came to the Center with a hind limb injury and appeared to be very happy to get back to her home last week! We can only help wild animals when people like you care enough to stop and help. Thank you to all of the amazing finders and transporters who go out of their way to help wildlife every day. It is because of you that turtles like th

Not a playful slapping match! 🙅‍♂️❌🐢 This is a male eastern painted turtle that is displaying mating behavior towards a female. Male sliders and painted turtles will flutter their long nails in front of the female to “woo” them! | DanTheTurtleMan

We LOVE turtles! In Nova Scotia and along our coasts, there are 4 species of freshwater turtle (eastern painted, snapping, wood, and Blanding’s turtle) and 3 marine turtles (Atlantic leatherback, Atlantic loggerhead, Atlantic Ridley), plus some other marine species that may visit our coasts, like green sea turtles. Turtles are reptiles. They have hard beaks (no teeth), lay leathery-shelled eggs (buried in a nest and independent from the jump), and are attached to their shells (literally, not jus