{"id":188,"date":"2008-09-01T21:23:43","date_gmt":"2008-09-02T01:23:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/?page_id=188"},"modified":"2012-10-09T16:30:37","modified_gmt":"2012-10-09T21:30:37","slug":"eastern-box-turtles-the-long-goodbye","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/?page_id=188","title":{"rendered":"Eastern Box Turtles: The Long Goodbye"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span>Habitat loss and fragmentation threatened the future of Eastern box turtles. Because they are so long-lived once they achieve adulthood, we often miss population declines until they crash. We see adult turtles &#8230; albeit in slowly diminishing numbers, but we don&#8217;t see the lack of juvenile and sub-adult recruits into the local population. Male box turtle #78, a resident of the Mass Audubon Wellfleet Bay Wildlife Sanctuary, illustrates the long goodbye of the Eastern box turtle species. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"425\" height=\"350\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/40Ob_7-DSb8\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"425\" height=\"350\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/40Ob_7-DSb8\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: center\"><strong><em>Male Eastern Box Turtle at Wellfleet Bay Wildlife Sanctuary<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Habitat loss and fragmentation threatened the future of Eastern box turtles. Because they are so long-lived once they achieve adulthood, we often miss population declines until they crash. We see adult turtles &#8230; albeit in slowly diminishing numbers, but we don&#8217;t see the lack of juvenile and sub-adult recruits into the local population. Male box [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":1153,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/188"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=188"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/188\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11975,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/188\/revisions\/11975"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}