{"id":16108,"date":"2024-08-12T11:21:49","date_gmt":"2024-08-12T15:21:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/?p=16108"},"modified":"2026-02-23T15:51:41","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T20:51:41","slug":"greg-bulte-says-northern-map-turtles-are-still-common-in-this-eastern-ontario-lake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/2024\/greg-bulte-says-northern-map-turtles-are-still-common-in-this-eastern-ontario-lake\/","title":{"rendered":"Northern Map Turtles Are At Risk"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Northern Map Turtles Are At Risk\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<p>The northern map turtle is considered a species at risk in Canada, but in at least one eastern Ontario lake they appear to be doing slightly better. And while the turtle population on Opinicon Lake is doing &#8220;fairly well,&#8221; things aren&#8217;t perfect, says <a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/people\/gregory-bulte\/\">Gregory Bult\u00e9<\/a>, our Biology Associate Prof &amp; Ottawa-area Biologist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1100\" height=\"428\" src=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/230\/img-4221_orig.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-16116\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/230\/img-4221_orig.jpeg 1100w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/230\/img-4221_orig-160x62.jpeg 160w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/230\/img-4221_orig-240x93.jpeg 240w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/230\/img-4221_orig-768x299.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/230\/img-4221_orig-400x156.jpeg 400w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/230\/img-4221_orig-360x140.jpeg 360w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/230\/img-4221_orig-200x78.jpeg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1100px) 100vw, 1100px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Greg<\/strong> has been studying and tracking the turtles on the North Frontenac lake since 2003. He says there&#8217;s a pretty big increase in the number of propeller injuries on these turtles in the last 20 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8216;Despite their relatively stable population numbers on the lake, 13 per cent of the female turtles have been struck by boats,&#8217; says <strong>Greg<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/ottawa\/northern-map-turtles-at-risk-1.7280831\">Read full story here!<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The northern map turtle is considered a species at risk in Canada, but in at least one eastern Ontario lake they appear to be doing slightly better. And while the turtle population on Opinicon Lake is doing &#8220;fairly well,&#8221; things aren&#8217;t perfect, says Gregory Bult\u00e9, our Biology Associate Prof &amp; Ottawa-area Biologist. Greg has been [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16109,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16108"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16108\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16913,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16108\/revisions\/16913"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}