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Species Spotlight! Eastern Chicken Turtle!
Celebrate #nationalaudubonday with the Chicken Turtle, today’s Species Spotlight! National Audubon Society preserves around the United States provide habitat not only for birds but for...
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Species Spotlight! Vietnamese Three-striped Box Turtle!
Celebrate DNA Day with Turtle Survival Alliance! On this day in 1953, the structure of DNA was published. This achievement has not only served human-kind,...
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Species Spotlight! Yellow-margined Box Turtle
Today begins Turtle Survival Alliance’s Turtle Month!For the next month, from today, April 22nd, to May 23rd, we are highlighting the 25 endangered species managed...
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Celebrate turtles and tortoises with us…
Celebrate turtles and tortoises with us by wearing Turtle Survival Alliance’s 2023 World Turtle Day® apparel. This year’s commemorative design features the Rote Island Snake-necked...
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Cast Your Vote for Pancakes!
Who doesn’t love pancakes? We all do, but, we LOVE Pancake Tortoises! These cute, flat, little rock crevice dwelling flapjacks need your help! Cheyenne Mountain...
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Statement Regarding the Sexual Harassment Allegations…
March 19, 2023 – Turtle Survival Alliance’s Chair of the Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) Committee, Heather Barrett, released the following statement regarding the sexual...
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Back to the wild…again!
By Steven Platt & Jordan Gray Last week, Turtle Survival Alliance’s partner WCS Cambodia released four Southern River Terrapins (Batagur affinis) back into the Sre...
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La Carranchina Natural Reserve Welcomes Newest…
January 9, 2023 By Igor Valencia and Jordan Gray In November 2022, through the joint Turtle Survival Alliance/Wildlife Conservation Society Colombia project, we translocated the...
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December Nesting Commencement
By Jordan Gray December. It’s the last month in the Gregorian calendar. It’s a month when billions of people of numerous religions across the world...
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Turtle Survival Center – December Update
By Jordan Gray Winter has officially arrived here at the Turtle Survival Center. Those from more northerly areas of the United States might scoff at...
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World Conservation Day 2022: Return of…
In Myanmar, in the late 1990s, the Burmese Star Tortoise was on the brink of extinction. Avidly sought for the wildlife trade, and with relentless removal from the wild, within a decade this tortoise species had almost completely disappeared from its native habitat. By the mid-2000s, it was considered functionally extinct in the wild.
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Happy Giving Tuesday!
This Giving Tuesday you can help us meet the challenge from one of our generous donors to raise at least $15,000 to protect the world’s most threatened turtles.
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