WANTED
Red Eared Slider
It is an Animal living on land which makes it a Terrestrial Pest
Description: head is greenish- gray with a red patch behind each eye and yellowish white line across the head. carapace (upper shell) is smooth, slightly domed and greenish- gray to brown in color with weak serrate edges on the rear marginals. Legs are greenish gray to black in color with yellow to white colored lines,
Found in Eastern United States
Threat to the U.S.
Oregon department of fish and wildlife reports that they have compete for native turtles for food, nesting and basking space, and hiding spaces. Native turtles have no immunity to parasites and diseases carried red eared sliders.
Found in states like New jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Vermont, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Virginia and Connecticut ect.
Problem
Sliders became a problem because so many owners set them free in a local pond or lake.
Its crimes are that it sometimes carry salmonella on their bodies, which varies from mild to severe but in some cases it is life- threatening.
Where do these crimes occur?
The crimes occur mostly in Santa Rosa, California... The Sonoma county
The spreading of salmonella occurred by the selling of hatch-ling turtles in the U.S was enacted back in 1975,which was widely available back then.
The red eared slider got to the United States by having it as a pet. It is the most commonly traded- turtle in the world.
The way its population is controlled.
The way of the red eared slider population is controlled by short of poisoning whole lakes, through hunting, trapping, and collecting eggs and hatchlings. Another way is to capture sterilization release.
By: Andy Galarza, Keyanna Charles, and Andy Sanchenelli