Bog turtle for sale

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Bog turtle for sale are one of the smallest turtle species in the world, and the smallest in North America. Adults are no more than 4.5 inch long. They are also known for having remarkably long lifespans: researchers have found that some bog turtles live longer than 60 years in the wild.

The bog turtle was listed as threatened under the Endangered Species Act in 1997 due to a variety of factors. Land-use changes, like residential and commercial development, have caused degradation and fragmentation of their wetland habitat. Natural succession of vegetation has also reduced the availability of their habitat. When low-growing wetland plants are overgrown by shrubby plants, they eventually become forested wetlands. Mature trees shade out the wetland plants the bog turtle depends upon. Like many other native turtle species, bog turtles are also at risk from collection and the illegal trade.

There is a 250-mile gap in the bog turtle range, effectively causing a separation between a northern and southern population. The northern population is federally listed as “threatened,” while the southern population is listed as “threatened by similarity of appearance.”  At the time of the listing, the northern population was in greater decline than the southern population and needed more protection. But the authors of the listing determination explained that listing the southern population as threatened “eliminates the ability of commercial collectors to commingle northern bog turtles with individuals from the southern population or to misrepresent them as southern bog turtles for commercial purposes.”