Leora Berman sounds unsure whether to refer to Grace — a one-eyed, roughly 10-kilogram, more-than-a-century-old female snapping turtle — in the past or present tense.
Berman, the founder of a nonprofit that protects turtles and their habitats, says there hasn’t been a confirmed sighting of Grace since September 2021, when she was spotted returning to her winter hibernation site in the Municipality of Dysart et al, located nearly 300 kilometres west of Ottawa.
“It’s hard to talk about,” Berman said of Grace’s prolonged absence despite “the entire community watching” for her in 2022.
But Berman’s group, Turtle Guardians, hasn’t given up the search just yet.
“We’ll certainly be looking for Grace
