Archive for November 2019
Commentary: South Carolina Must Tighten State Laws to Protect Turtles
BY ELISE BENNETT (Center for Biological Diversity) and JORDAN GRAY (Turtle Survival Alliance) Each year, tens of thousands of live turtles are stolen from America’s woodlands and waterways and shipped overseas as pets or for meat. And with lax laws against harvest, South Carolina is a haven for turtle snatchers. State wildlife officials recently saved…
Read MoreArt Auction for the Turtle Survival Alliance’s Tortoise Conservation Center in Madagascar
Radical Radiated, an original art quilt, has been crafted and donated by Joanna Ellis to raise funds for the rebuilding of the Turtle Survival Alliance’s Tortoise Conservation Center (TCC), our central base of operations in southern Madagascar. The TCC is the linchpin in TSA’s effort to restore depleted populations or Radiated Tortoises with animals seized…
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