That box turtle in your yard has been there longer than you.
Eastern box turtles live 50-80+ years. They have home ranges of only 2-5 acres. They know every rock, every water source, every hibernation spot in their tiny territory.
They're also disappearing. Fast.
Box turtle populations have declined by over 50% in the past 50 years. In many suburban areas, they're functionally extinct — no breeding population remains.
The causes:
Cars. Box turtles move slowly. They cross roads. They don't make it.
Collection. People find them and take them home as "pets." A 40-year-old turtle removed from the wild never adapts to captivity.
Relocation. Well-meaning people "relocate" them to parks or woods miles away. The turtle immediately tries to walk home. Across roads. Through neighborhoods. For months. Until it dies or is killed.
Habitat loss. Every subdivision that replaced forest eliminated an entire generation.
Dogs. Domestic dogs kill box turtles by crushing their shells.
Every box turtle you see is irreplaceable. They take 7-10 years to reach sexual maturity. Females lay only 3-8 eggs per year. Survival rate for eggs is below 5% due to raccoon and skunk predation.
They can't recover from population loss quickly. Losing one breeding female sets the local population back a decade.
What to do:
If you see one crossing a road — help it across in the direction it's heading. NEVER relocate it elsewhere.
NEVER take one home as a pet. It's illegal in many states and a death sentence for the turtle.
If it's in your yard — leave it. It lives there.
Keep dogs supervised — they attack turtles.
Drive carefully on rural and suburban roads May-October.
That turtle survived 40 years in a 3-acre world.
Its entire life depends on those 3 acres staying safe.
Leave it where it is. Help it cross the road. And let it be.
After the barricades were removed earlier this evening by Newark PD; a protestor is spotted deflating the tire of a van posted immediately outside Delaney Hall.
@xelgell No kidding 🙄
By your own design. Every single place you people go is nothing but chaos.
That's why we keep our families as far away from you ferals as possible.
https://t.co/wzOzRDvJhV
🚨#BREAKING: Three North Carolina women are facing CRIMINAL CHARGES after a "teen-takeover" event at a trampoline park in Raleigh NC turned violent.
Kids were seen rioting, punching and kicking each other, and wrestling on the ground while adults encouraged the fighting.
During the riot, one of the women BRANDISHED A HANDGUN and, according to police reports, encouraged a child to fight the other kids.
WHY DOES THIS KEEP HAPPENING?!!!!!!!!
That box turtle in your yard has been there longer than you.
Eastern box turtles live 50-80+ years. They have home ranges of only 2-5 acres. They know every rock, every water source, every hibernation spot in their tiny territory.
They're also disappearing. Fast.
Box turtle populations have declined by over 50% in the past 50 years. In many suburban areas, they're functionally extinct — no breeding population remains.
The causes:
Cars. Box turtles move slowly. They cross roads. They don't make it.
Collection. People find them and take them home as "pets." A 40-year-old turtle removed from the wild never adapts to captivity.
Relocation. Well-meaning people "relocate" them to parks or woods miles away. The turtle immediately tries to walk home. Across roads. Through neighborhoods. For months. Until it dies or is killed.
Habitat loss. Every subdivision that replaced forest eliminated an entire generation.
Dogs. Domestic dogs kill box turtles by crushing their shells.
Every box turtle you see is irreplaceable. They take 7-10 years to reach sexual maturity. Females lay only 3-8 eggs per year. Survival rate for eggs is below 5% due to raccoon and skunk predation.
They can't recover from population loss quickly. Losing one breeding female sets the local population back a decade.
What to do:
If you see one crossing a road — help it across in the direction it's heading. NEVER relocate it elsewhere.
NEVER take one home as a pet. It's illegal in many states and a death sentence for the turtle.
If it's in your yard — leave it. It lives there.
Keep dogs supervised — they attack turtles.
Drive carefully on rural and suburban roads May-October.
That turtle survived 40 years in a 3-acre world.
Its entire life depends on those 3 acres staying safe.
Leave it where it is. Help it cross the road. And let it be.
🚨WHAT THE HELL?!!!
A woman walking her dog outside her own home in Miami was BEATEN AND ST*BBED IN THE FACE by a Black homeless man... for absolutely NO reason.
And the man who did it had been arrested FOUR times before... THREE of them for assault!!!!
THREE prior assault arrests...
...AND he was let out on bond multiple previous times.
Her name is Caitlin Dydzuhn, she is 36 years old.
On the morning of May 19, she stepped outside to walk her dog.
Raydean Johnson attacked her from behind, punched her over and over, slammed her head into the ground.
He st*bbed her in the face with a homemade shank built from a tire pressure gauge and a nail.
She was screaming on the ground and kept fighting him off.
Then a stranger named Cassius Bythewood heard her.
He SPRINTED over, kicked the attacker, and fought him off, saving her life.
Caitlin survived, but says she is partially blind, and afraid to walk out her own front door.
Her attacker is now charged with attempted felony m*rder.
WE DO NOT HAVE TO LIVE LIKE THIS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Yeah, about this.
Why are CCP-controlled companies threatening our food supply and our economy from within?
And while we're at it, why the hell has the CCP been allowed to acquire vital companies like this here in the US in the first place?
@USDA / @SecRollins
🚨 do you understand what happened to Chutou..
A border collie with 1.5 million followers was stolen off his family's farmland while his owner was traveling abroad.
He was sold to a dog meat restaurant for $27, killed, and eaten before anyone could find him.
- Chutou was an 8-year-old border collie famous for joining his owner on years of journeys across China
- Security footage caught two strangers hauling him away on an electric bike
- He was wearing both a collar and a GPS tracker when he was taken
- The owner offered $1,500 to get him back - the thief had already sold him for $27
One man's most loyal companion became a $27 meal, and in China that broke no law.
The obese black man yelling is Jacob Blake’s father and a BLM (burn loot mur**r) activist.
Jacob Blake: Charged with 3rd-degree sexual assault, domestic abuse, & had an active warrant when he got shot resisting arrest with a knife. A knife like Killmelo used.
Ultimately, the cops had to shoot him, and he is now paralyzed from it.
His father, today, defending murderer Karmelo Anthony, yelling “the only good cracker is a dead cracker.”
Blake Sr. is used to defending the dredges of society.
Too bad his son couldn’t walk to the protest with him.
This is no new thing
Remember, this OJ Simpson juror admitted that the jury thought OJ was guilty, but they refused to convict him because they didn't want to lock up a black guy
They wanted to let a black guy get away with murdering a white woman because they wanted payback for racism, as she admits proudly here
Remember when four black “teens” captured, abducted, and tortured a white kid in 2017?
They livestreamed themselves torturing him, even partially scalping him. They were cracking up laughing as they did it
Naturally the media hushed that up fast
Three of them got a few years in prison. One got off with just probation and community service. No real punishment, much less justice, was delivered