Is it legal to "adopt" a captive Florida Box Turtle in Florida? I understand you cannot buy or sell them here but you can catch and remove two from the wild which I would not do. Seems strange.
emysemys said:This is excerpted from the Florida Herp Laws:
"No person shall buy, sell or possess for sale any alligator snapping turtle, box turtle, Barbour’s map turtle, river cooter, loggerhead musk turtle, Escambia River map turtle, diamondback terrapins, or parts thereof."
Elsewhere in the rules it says you can have two in your possession but need a permit to have more. I really doubt you can collect them from the wild. More than likely the "two" you are allowed to have probably come from some sort of rescue or grandfathered.