2 Free Adolencent Female Diamondbacks in South New Jersey!
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Hi All! About 9 months ago my fiance and I came across two hatchling dimondback terrapins while vacationing on the southern coast of New Jersey. I have always loved turtles in general so I fell in love with them. After finding out that they were a protected reptile we decided to rescue them. We also live in New jersey so it was all legal 🙂 We have a 10 gallon tank and all the fixin’s that you need to raise two little terrapins. They are healthy, full of energy and full of personality! We are moving an will not be able to take our girls with us. We could not imagine making money off them and would just like to make sure they find a good home. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE help us! my personal email is twbrazell@… feel free to email me. I can get pictures, but have no recent ones at the moment. Hope to talk to someone soon! 🙂 Tim
Perhaps you could contact Roger Woods and see if these could be added to the headstarting project and released in the spring? Katrina
For those of you in New Jersey who have not already done so, The Wetlands Institute in Stone Harbor http://www.wetlandsinstitute.org/ is an amazing testament to what can happen when scientists work within their community. Roger Wood has been running the terrapin program for many years now, and some of their programs are very visible to the public including roadside pick ups of females that are stranded trying to cross major roadways (they can’t climb the curbs). The car patrols are done several times daily and I think it really demonstrated to the community how valuable these animals are. When I visited a well dressed mom drove in with a dead (and pretty messy) hit by car terrapin because she knew that Roger Wood & his interns would collect her eggs, incubate them and release the hatchlings – now how amazing is that? You can also see terrapin crossing signs in the community. That’s the type of work they’ve done on the local level in addition to all the scientific papers. It’s pretty inspiring when you see that people have been able to pass onto others the passion they have for their life’s work and interests – something to strive for :
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