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DESCRIPTIONS AND LINKS TO REPORTS CONCERNING TURTLE CONSERVATION

1.  Many different turtle-saving options are used at Rondeau.  Practical solutions exist close to home.   View Report  (more on "headstarting in links 10, 11, & 13)
 

2.  If an ecopassage has a grate as its top surface, it can be small and inexpensive, but still do the job   View Report.
 

3.  Effective turtle barriers can consist of as little as one foot high chain link fencing.  View Report
 

4.  Turtle nest protection using simple chicken wire has been shown to work.  View Report. 
 

5.  Scott Gillingwater, a researcher for the LPCIP, declares that artificially incubating turtle eggs is an effective way to improve survival and increase populations.  View Report
 

6.  Raccoons can be kept out of turtle nests by securing wire screening over them.  View Report
 

7.  The use of wire cages over turtle nests can increase survival up to 90%.  Over 20 years, 2461 hatchlings survived from just one turtle.  View Report
 

8.  Sprinkling habanero pepper powder on turtle nests allowed 627 out of 647 nests to avoid predation.  It's cheap and effective against most predators.  View Report
 

9.  Electric fencing around turtle nests is showing promise as a means of keeping predators out.  View Report
 

10.  "Headstarting" hatchling turtles has increased one population from 150 to 1400 in 10 years.  This involves rearing hatchlings artificially for 11 months.  View Report
 

11.  "Headstarting" turtles involves raising them in captivity until their shells are hard enough for them to survive in the wild.  View Report
 

12.  Conservation gives more bang for the buck if the money is put into saving the young as opposed to saving the adults of a long-lived species.  View Report
 

13.  "Headstarting" turtles results in a 95% survival rate of the young.  It has proven effective over at least 8 years.  View Report
 

14.  Box turtles will use culverts that are narrow, dark and inexpensive.  View Report
 

15.  The spotted turtle population is increasing in Big Creek Marsh.  Road-kill may or may not affect populations.  View Report
 

16.  Turtles cannot cross an 18" high fence if it has 6" of aluminum flashing along the top of it.  View Report

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