A Scarborough man has been fined $4,000 for illegally hunting snapping turtles at a conservation area east of London, ...

Ontario’s Ministry of Natural Resources has fined a resident of Scarborough after they were found to be illegally hunting snapping turtles in the town of Dorchester.

Snapping turtles are large freshwater turtles that are unable to withdraw their head and legs fully into their shells, and so have extremely powerful jaws that they use to defend themselves with by ...

Locally, turtles' nesting season runs from about mid-May to mid-June. Motorists kill thousands of turtles trying to cross roads to get to their nesting sites. Seven of the state's 10 native turtle ...