Fifth Annual SUBMERGE Marine Science Festival
Species Highlight
Welcome to the Team!
Saving the Pacific Leatherback
Conservation Center Updates
We have been incredibly busy this past month here at the Turtle Conservancy's Conservation Center. Two interns, Simon Rouot (L) and Noah Rodrigues (R), joined the TC Team, our incubators seemed to have revolving doors with new turtles hatching almost everyday, and major renovations and redesign of our large greenhouse is underway...
Congratulations Russell Mittermeier!
Join us at the 2018 WCN Expo
Join us in San Francisco on Saturday, October 13th at the Wildlife Conservation Network Expo. The Expo is full of interesting, inspirational presentations by conservationists from around the world. Be sure to stop by the Turtle Conservancy booth to learn more about our programs... View the full Expo schedule by clicking here, including information about each speaker.
The Russians Are Here!
Along with interfering in American elections, the Russians have now established themselves at the Turtle Conservancy–Russian tortoises, that is. Ten of the tortoises arrived over this summer as homeless rescues, abandoned when their owners tired of them. Our Russians are settling in nicely; they are completely uninterested in computers, so we're not concerned about their hacking into our systems...
Issue 7
The 7th issue of The Tortoise is here! 148 pages of full-color exploration of how turtles and tortoises influence people, politics and the arts. The feature articles span the globe, from Robert Kennedy Jr’s animal filled life to an Amazonian eco-travel expedition in Peru to the turtle collectors of Europe. This issue of The Tortoise Magazine will be sure to captivate conservationists, art enthusiasts, and world travelers alike.
Get your issue today, by purchasing any tier TC Membership on our website or by purchasing directly from our store. If you are a current member you will be receiving your copy of Issue 7 in the coming weeks.
Walton Ford: Nature Gone Wild
Conservation Center Success
Killing the Endangered Species Act
SoFo Gala Award Winners
First Captive Born Palawan Forest Turtle Hatches at Katala Foundation Inc.
Think Global, Act Local!
Geometric Tortoise Preserve Update
Bolson Tortoise Preserve Update
In mid-June, a team of researchers from TC and HABIO, TC’s Mexican sister organization, spent nearly a week in Mexico’s Bolson de Mapimí to survey the Critically Endangered Bolson Tortoise. In 2016, HABIO and TC purchased the 43,000-acre San Ignacio Ranch at the heart of Mexico’s Bolson de Mapimí desert plateau; at the time the ranch was understood to be inhabited by a good population of tortoises, but no systematic population survey has ever been carried out…