Reply #23: do you know just how much turtle habitat is destroyed each year to build housing?

[Donnachaidh]

I live in an area that had quite a bit of natural box turtle habitat that was literally plowed under, so some yuppie could have a McMansion. There was no environmental impact studies done, nothing to take into account the boxies or any of the other wildlife that would be forced into the traffic, or into areas that didn't want these creatures. We've personally saved at least a dozen from becoming road pizza on heavily traveled roads.

Now quite a few of those areas have houses that are being foreclosed on, because of the housing slump. That land would have been better off left alone. But someone's greed got in the way.