60 Minutes: The Race to Save the Tortoise

Turtle Ball

On September 28 the Turtle Conservancy held its third annual Turtle Ball at The Bowery Hotel in New York City.

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The Tortoise is a magazine dedicated to the appreciation and conservation of tortoises and turtles and their habitats worldwide.

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SE Asia Wildlife Trade

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PROMOTING THE WONDER OF TURTLES

The Turtle Conservancy is dedicated to protecting threatened turtles and tortoises and their habitats worldwide, and to promoting their appreciation by people everywhere.

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This adult turtle is a Sydney Basin Turtle (Emydura macquarii dharuk) and was pulled from a body of water due to it being dewatered for new road development in Sydney. @wild_spec is overseeing the project through Turtle Rescues NSW to ensure the best survival rate of the protected turtles. Note the big, bright yellow eye that is exclusive to this species! 💛👀✨
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When you forget it’s #stpatricksday and need some #green in a pinch! This baby slider was found by our president Eric Goode in South Carolina. Baby turtles who hatch late in the year often overwinter in the nest and emerge with the first rains in the spring. Keep an eye out! 🐢 👀 #sundayfunday

Happy #StPatricksDay! No one is going to be pinching this Sulawesi Forest Turtle (Leucocephalon yuwonoi) today. Not only is he wearing plenty of green, his species is also critically endangered, so you have to be nice to him! 💚🍀 We feel lucky every day to be working with beautiful and exceptionally rare turtles like these. .
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I want to be where the turtles are 🌊🐢 Turtles are important indicator species that inform us about the quality of our wetlands. Protecting turtles is protecting clean water for all animals, including us!⠀
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Here’s your daily dose of precious! This baby turtle is an Eastern Long Necked Turtles (Chelodina longicollis). Happy hatchday little guy! @wild_spec removed the eggs from a roadkilled female and successfully incubated them so the hatchlings can be released into the local river. 🙌🏼✨ Follow him for more turtle rescues! .
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The aptly named Spiny Turtle (Heosemys spinosa) is a semi aquatic species that inhabits humid forest streams across, Indonesia, Sumatra, Borneo & Thailand. Their spines are extremely sharp when they are young, helping the small baby turtles to deter predators that would otherwise make a snack of them. As they get older, their spines disappear. Targeted by poachers for their unique appearance as well as to supply food markets, these beauties are also endangered. Thankfully, we maintain captive assurance colonies of these turtles here at our conservation center and breed them every year. .⠀
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✨👀 A stunning example of why these turtles are called Painted Wood Turtles (Rhinoclemmys pulcherrima pulcherrima). This turtle is a part of a breeding project in our center. A part of our strategy consists to create insurance colony of turtles endangered in the wild in order to ensure them a better future!
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Conserving species in their natural habitat through land acquisition is one of our main priorities! This not only allows turtles and tortoises to remain in the wild, it also protects all of the other creatures they share that habitat with! This beautiful Mexican Beaded Lizard (Heloderma horridum exasperatum) is one of the many neighbors living alongside flagship species Goode’s Thornscrub Tortoise (Gopherus evgoodei) in our 1,000 acre preserve in Sonora, Mexico. ⠀
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A giant Galapagos Tortoise enjoying the Cali sunshine at our Conservation Center. Our conservation breeding program at the center includes 32 species of turtles and tortoises, 12 of which are on the "Top 40 Most Endangered” list, according to the International Union for Conservation of Nature's Tortoise and Freshwater Turtle Specialist Group. .
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Never, ever release unwanted pet turtles into the wild! https://t.co/88u9G2Mkpy
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This Sydney Basin Turtle was pulled from a body of water due to it being dewatered for new road development.… https://t.co/5EPBdA8L2i
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https://t.co/0RdGYdtCj5 It never seems to end! That’s why we work so hard to end the illegal trafficking of wildlife!
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I want to be where the turtles are 🌊🐢 Turtles are important indicator species that inform us about the quality of o… https://t.co/2yhg5942Sv
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Here’s your daily dose of precious! This baby turtle is an Eastern Long Necked Turtles (Chelodina longicollis). Hap… https://t.co/BHhsE4Mb2s
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🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼 https://t.co/DMKNjNQZam
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RT @WildWildTWest: Had the unbelievable experience of finding a leatherback sea turtle nesting on a Trinidad beach. Leatherbacks are… https://t.co/nGHgcEbsuw
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Climate change impacts us all! https://t.co/dFNBnQ0pFT
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The aptly named Spiny Turtle‘s spines are extremely sharp when they are young, helping the baby turtles to deter pr… https://t.co/nYOjZ5s1Wy
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