Kids For Turtles
Tudhope Park 500 Atherley Rd. L3V 5X6 Orillia, ON, Canada

Coco, Van Gogh, and Houdini hope that everyone had a turtlely awesome and safe long weekend A nice long brumation nap is looking awefully tempting after a Thanksgiving feast This year, we at KFT are thankful for our wonderful volunteers, supporters, and community The collaborative spirit that you showed at our Community Clean-up and Dragonfly/Butterfly Counts was incredible. Stay tuned for more virtual events in the future.

Join us for a fun safe 2 day butterfly and dragonfly count challenge in the Carden Alvar. Foe more info see our event post or visit our website at https://www.kidsforturtles.com/bdcount/

Everyone should be getting their pitch-in bags to the curb this week. Reminder that they just go out on your regular garbage day this week. Thanks to everyone that has "pitched-in" to help clean up our beautiful city. Check out the clean-up map to see what a great job we have done together! Http://www.kidsforturtles.com/orilli/community-clean-up-map

Thanks so much to everyone participating in the annual clean-up initiative. It was a tremendous success! Those participating don't forget to post you photos with the hashtag #orilliacleansup2020 to be entered in our prize draw.

Coco, Van Gogh, and Houdini hope that everyone had a turtlely awesome and safe long weekend A nice long brumation nap is looking awefully tempting after a Thanksgiving feast This year, we at KFT are thankful for our wonderful volunteers, supporters, and community The collaborative spirit that you showed at our Community Clean-up and Dragonfly/Butterfly Counts was incredible. Stay tuned for more virtual events in the future.

What a beautiful day yesterday for the dragonfly count in the Carden Alvars and today is even nicer for the butterfly count. Hope the counters are have a fantastic day!

Join us for a fun safe 2 day butterfly and dragonfly count challenge in the Carden Alvar. Foe more info see our event post or visit our website at https://www.kidsforturtles.com/bdcount/

Everyone should be getting their pitch-in bags to the curb this week. Reminder that they just go out on your regular garbage day this week. Thanks to everyone that has "pitched-in" to help clean up our beautiful city. Check out the clean-up map to see what a great job we have done together! Http://www.kidsforturtles.com/orilli/community-clean-up-map

Thanks so much to everyone participating in the annual clean-up initiative. It was a tremendous success! Those participating don't forget to post you photos with the hashtag #orilliacleansup2020 to be entered in our prize draw.

JOIN us for a fun safe Orillia Community Clean-up. REGISTER AT: https://docs.google.com//1-jiojNERlOQjTdB9w1CWrjJoAqq_e8N/ GET MORE INFO AT: https://www.kidsforturtles.com//orillia-community-clean-up/

Its that time of year again. Keep your eyes open for turtles crossing our roadways.

Blanding’s Turtle Have you ever seen a Blanding’s Turtle? They can live to be 75! Unlike snapping turtles, which have yellow spots, look for a bright yellow chin and throat. If you spot a turtle eating on land, it might be a Blandingmost aquatic turtles feed exclusively in the water. They’re also likely to be seen on the move; Blanding’s make the largest overland movement of any Ontario turtle to move from their summer nesting spots to overwintering habitat.... For more information, check out this link https://cottagelife.com//how-to-identify-ontarios-8-speci/ for a list of common differences among Ontario’s species of turtles

The Ontario Turtle Conservation Center is doing amazing work to save turtles throughout Ontario. Learn more about what they do by watching this CBC mini documentary. Warning: this video contains graphic images of surgery on injured turtles that may be disturbing to some viewers. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lHnIZ_Aaed8

Road mortality is a major cause of turtle population decline but a few changes to infrastructure can make a huge difference in noted problem locations https://www.mnn.com//stories/how-turtle-tunnel-saving-lives

It can be very complicated to determine what happened millions of years ago when you only have fossils as clues. https://www.nytimes.com///dinosaur-crushed-sea-turtle.html

As turtles are hatching out drivers need to be especially vigilant for turtle hatchlings that can be as small as a quarter, trying to get to the water. https://www.postbulletin.com//article_0aa8b858-d0bc-11e9-a