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Join our Webinar: Meet the Hatchlings!

Join our staff of the Turtle Survival Center, Thursday, November 7, 2024, at 1:00 PM EST as they take you on an inside look at our hatchling room and the more than 60 hatchlings we’ve produced this year that live there. Reserve your spot today!

In this one-hour live webinar, you will tour the turtle nursery, meet its precious inhabitants, learn how we raise them, absorb knowledge and insights from our experts, and engage in a Question & Answer session as you come face to face with beautiful and intriguing yet highly imperiled species like the Rote Island Snake-necked Turtle, Pan’s Box Turtle, Southern Vietnam Box Turtle, twin Sulawesi Forest Turtles, our 100th hatchling Indochinese Box Turtle, and many more!

And, 2024 has been another year of hatching success! This year to date, we’ve produced 65 hatchlings, all of which are the future for their species—and we want to introduce them to you!

The Turtle Survival Center opened its doors in the South Carolina Lowcountry in 2013 and is home to a carefully curated and managed collection of 26 species of highly imperiled turtles and tortoises. Since its opening, the Turtle Survival Center has produced hundreds of hatchlings of Endangered, Critically Endangered, and Presumed Extinct in the Wild species, all of which are critical toward our mission to protect and restore wild populations of tortoises and freshwater turtles.

Featuring:

• A.J. Fetterman, Chelonian Keeper II
• Clinton Doak, Director of Turtle Survival Center Operations
• Cris Hagen, Director of Animal Management and Collections