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5 Adorable Animals That Are Legally Considered Pests In Idaho
When the Idaho Reptile Zoo opened their new location on Overland, something Tyler mentioned in his video tour shocked us. We had no idea that they were one of the few places in the state that could legally provide a certain type of turtle a home.
We re not talking about one of the big tortoises he brings to Canyon County Kids Expo. We re not even talking about his much scarier snapping turtles. We re talking about a cute, unassuming water turtle that hangs out in the Idaho Reptile Zoo s feeding pond. A turtle that, as a turtle obsessed child, I remember seeing in books about turtles that I would check out from my local library!
Robert Thomson said that many habitats that have been critical areas for the evolution of turtles have disappeared and may shrink further within the next 100 years.
Other factors affecting their survival rates are the hunting of turtles for food and traditional medicine, and the heavy development of coastal and waterfront areas by humans that greatly reduced their habitats.
There are around 360 turtle species a small number compared with amphibians (more than 8,200), mammals (6,400) and birds (10,000). About 60% of the world’s turtles are considered threatened or endangered, and that percentage is expected to rise.
“Turtles face a daunting future,” Thomson said. “The group contains relatively few species to begin with, and the majority of these are subject to serious conservation risk. As habitat loss, human exploitation of wild populations and climate change continue, this situation will become more dire.”
Jim Chipp
Illegally dumped pet turtles residing in Coromandel ponds are one of few to successfully breed in the wild.
First there were rats, stouts, and possums - now turtles could be the next major pest. People illegally dumping pet turtles isn’t a new phenomenon, but with only a few populations knowingly breeding offspring successfully in the wild so far, experts fear high temperatures could turn the reptile into a major threat. A new breeding population was recently discovered in ponds at Cooks Beach on the Coromandel Peninsula. Red-eared slider turtles have long been considered one of the world’s worst invasive species, but were allowed to be sold in New Zealand pet stores because it was thought the New Zealand climate was too cold for their eggs to successfully incubate and hatch.