Nanaimo News Bulletin. This is where it begins: with a turtle in a local ecosystem. Can we help it if we have a local species that’s been declared endangered? Anyone who has walked the perimeter path of Buttertubs Marsh has seen the signs and that a section of the path was changed to protects the turtles’ nesting habitat. So we’ve done our bit – which is exactly the assumption that has led inexorably to global warming. If you’re interested in learning how that happened, a good place to start is right here in Nanaimo with the plight of the Western Painted Turtle. [ARTICLE LINK]