The recent deaths of four turtles in Sandy Lake Park in Bedford, N.S., has come as a disappointment for the head of a group that tries to protect them. Clarence Stevens, president of Nova Scotia's Turtle Patrol, said a hiker came across the four dead turtles and alerted the group last week. The turtles were found along this path in Sandy Lake Park. A hiker found four painted turtles that had apparently been run over and killed in Sandy Lake Park last week. (Submitted by Suzanne Hoyt )The Turtle Patrol had put four years of study into the turtles at Sandy Lake Park, said Stevens.

Source: CBC News July 13, 2020 20:09 UTC