A Snapping Turtle Hatchling is making it’s way through high grass to it’s destination.
Posted on 08/18/2022 11:56:35 AM PDT by SJackson
A Snapping Turtle Hatchling is making it’s way through high grass to it’s destination.
A Long Island animal group is alleging that Suffolk County workers "literally mowed down" more than 100 snapping turtle hatchlings and demanding an investigation into what happened.
John Di Leonardo, the president and executive director of Humane Long Island, said that a resident made the gruesome discovery of the dead young reptiles earlier in the week at the Meadow Croft Estate in Sayville.
On Wednesday, he called on the county parks department and the New York Department of Environmental Protection to look into the matter, and said officials need "enact a prohibition on mowing over or otherwise disturbing nesting sites" at the estate during the spring, summer and into the fall.
"This massacre of more than 100 hatchlings is just the latest of a disturbing series of deaths attributed to human carelessness on Long Island, including federally protected shorebirds having their nests destroyed on the South Shore, a yellow warbler dying after being caught in a glue-trap at a Nassau County Preserve, and a rash of wildlife deaths attributed to rodenticides," Di Leonardo said.
Karenlynn Stracher, a volunteer with the organziation, said that protecting snapping turtles — which are a keystone species and New York's state reptile — is crucial because they serve as "nature's cleanup crew and removing detritus from our lands and waterways."
WON”T SOMEBODY THINK OF THE BABY TURTLES!
Sad for the babies. I've occasionally moved a snake or two myself. I believe this is a building open to the public, an old mansion. Not mowing spring, summer and fall because of non-endangered snapping turtles will likely be an issue. The conservation group needs to find an endangered something. Were it private property, a different matter.
SNAPPING TURTLES ARE DOOMED TO EXTINCTION UNLESS WE ACT NOW!!!
(So for Heaven’s sake, let’s not do a damned thing!)
Alligator snapping turtles are somewhat dangerous when they get bigger.
The place has ghosts, maybe long grass will help. A 60 second recording of the spirits can be found here
Anti infanticide?
Very, to fingers and pets.
Cry me a river.
Snapping turtles are not even close to be endangered.
Why don’t you adopt one of Fauci’s tortured Beagle puppies instead.
Put a couple of these littles ‘babies’ in the animal lovers Koi pond and see if they still feel the same way. Snappers will destroy a fish population in do time.
So which species do you want to protect?
You are going to have to pick a favorite.
I don’t care much for snappers. Ugly darned things, but they do serve a purpose.
I have enough snapping turtles on my rural property in CT to restock NY state if they run out...
;-)
Fluffy, my pet snapper, takes umbrage at the “ugly” part.
Definitely a face only a daddy or mama could love!!
What estate is that? Where is it?
Resident needs to move to new residence
Why do you think the mother turtle abandons her nest?
Its a shame to waste all of that soup.
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