NEW ORLEANS— As the result of a lawsuit by the Center for Biological Diversity and Healthy Gulf, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today proposed to protect Pearl River map turtles as a threatened ...

A potential new setback to the contentious One Lake development project comes down to the Pearl River Map Turtle, a species named for its distinct map-like shell pattern, that is unique to the Pearl ...

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NEW ORLEANS—As the result of a lawsuit by the Center for Biological Diversity and Healthy Gulf, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has agreed to decide on Endangered Species Act protection for ...

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 ...

Federal wildlife managers are proposing endangered species protections for a rare freshwater turtle found only in Louisiana and Mississippi. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced on Monday that ...

NEW ORLEANS, La. (WLOX) - Two species of turtles found in Mississippi rivers may soon have new protections under the Endangered Species Act. The Pascagoula map turtle and the Pearl River map turtle ...