Sometimes We Win for Wildlife

One of White's Wetland snapping turtles enjoying a warm pond on a warm day

The Ontario government has relented at last. Thanks to the science community, the repeated pressure from environmental groups and the thousands - literally thousands - of Ontario citizens who saw the insanity of allowing the turtle hunt to continue and voiced their opinion to have it stopped, the snapping turtle hunt is no more. 

As a provincially designated ESA, home to a small but steadfast population of snapping turtles, White's Wetland applauds this decision. We hope that more enlightened decisions regarding Ontario's threatened, endangered or at-risk wildlife will be coming out of Queen's Park in the months ahead.

Read Ontario Nature's media release about the end of the snapping turtle hunt here: 

Ontario Nature: Ontario decision to end hunt of at-risk snapping turtle is a necessary move