Local conservationist Ben Wurst reacted on Tuesday to news reports that for at least five years, a Pennsylvania man has been traveling to Little Egg Harbor to poach diamondback terrapins and their eggs for export to U.S. and Canadian markets. Wurst has worked for years to protect the threatened species and has enlisted volunteers to help conserve the terrapins by escorting them safely across the remote road bisecting the state’s Great Bay Wildlife Management Area.
“This happened in the heart of where I’ve worked to protect terrapins from becoming road kill in Little Egg Harbor with…
Subscribe to keep reading
This story is from our archive. Get your SandPaper Annual Pass for access to our digital archive, plus everything else a pass includes. Details below.
Annual Pass — $18 Details
365-day access to:
- The complete SandPaper digital archive (stories date back to 2012).
- Full photo galleries from our photographers.
- The entire catalog of SandPaper games, puzzles and quizzes.
How it works
- Enter your email below and click to pay the one-time $18. Card details are entered on Stripe’s secure page.
- You’re in straight away — no password to create, and nothing to set up or manage.
- You stay signed in. If you’re ever signed out, or you read on a new phone or computer, we’ll email you a code to get you back in.
- Never auto-renews. Your pass is good for one year. We will email you when it expires so you can renew if you’d like.
See our site policies for more information.
Already a subscriber? We’ll email a code to get you back in.
