Drs. Roger Wood and Rosalind Herlands (Richard Stockton College) are working on the Diamondback Terrapin Conservation Project. Research is conducted at the Wetlands Institute. The Wetlands Institute has been monitoring the status of southern New Jersey terrapin populations since 1989. Drs. Wood and Herlands are joined by college interns from universities and colleges across the USA.

The researchers have discovered that local terrapins are undergoing an alarming population crash. They have developed two innovative approaches to help the local terrapin populations.

• Volunteers rescue eggs from the carcasses of female terrapins that have been killed by cars. They incubate the eggs until they hatch and then "head-start" the baby terrapins for 9-10 months until they have grown enough to be safely released back into their native marshes.
  
  
  
• Researchers have invented a device called the Bycatch Reduction Apparatus (BRA). These Turtle Excluders are easily installed on standard commercial crab traps to reduce the number of terrapins that drown in the traps.

Explore to discover who is trying to solve terrapin troubles!
Wetlands Institute
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