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Reporting a snapping turtle © Jory Mullen
It was the year 2009, and Ontario Nature decided to launch the Ontario Reptile and Amphibian Atlas (ORAA) in an effort to improve the province’s knowledge of reptile and amphibian distributions. The ORAA was a continuation of the earlier efforts of the Ontario Herpetofaunal Summary and the Eastern Ontario Herpetofaunal Atlas, which included initial written records dating back to the late 1600s! After 10 years of additional data collection under the ORAA, the atlas program has come to a close with a final ...