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Ted Turner Saves Tortoises

Ted Turner Saves Tortoises

This past month, the Turtle Conservancy Board of Directors and Staff were invited to participate in the release of 25 Bolson Tortoises back into their Pleistocene range. Joining 75 others that now range free on the Armendaris Ranch, these tortoises are part of a group of over 700 captive-bred Bolson Tortoises raised on Ted Turner's Armendaris and Ladder Ranches in New Mexico. Bolson tortoises were unknown to science until the remnant population in Mexico was discovered in 1959. Wild bolson tortoises have been absent from the continental U.S. for over 10,000 years, during the late Pleistocene Epoch…

TC Fall Board Meeting

TC Fall Board Meeting

In late October, the Turtle Conservancy had the pleasure of holding our first (mostly) in-person board meeting in nearly two years. The three day gathering at our center in Ojai, CA was a much-anticipated chance for us to come together and update board members on our ongoing programs and discuss the future of the TC...