Pura Vida: Conservation in Costa Rica

By Natalia Gallego-García, Director of Conservation Genetics, Turtle Survival Alliance; Jordan Gray, External Relations Manager, Turtle Survival Alliance; Andrew Walde, Senior Director of Field Conservation and Science, Turtle Survival Alliance; and Eric Munscher, SWCA Environmental Consultant Guttural whoops from howler monkeys echo through the trees. Three-toed sloths tuck themselves obscurely into the forest canopy. Songbirds […]

Conservation Champions in Chiapas

Mexico has the second-highest diversity of turtles in the world, but about half of them are poorly known or lack published natural history data. Turtle Survival Alliance and the Mohamed bin Zayed Species Conservation Fund support the work of Eduardo Reyes Grajales to research the Pacific Coast Musk Turtle (Staurotypus salvinii) in Chiapas, Mexico. This […]

Happy Turtle Month!

This Earth Day, join us to create a brighter future for turtles. Today marks a worldwide celebration of our planet and kicks off our 5th Annual Turtle Month! From today until World Turtle Day® on May 23, we invite you to stand with us in our global mission to protect the world’s most endangered turtles […]

Healthy Turtles are Happy Turtles: Our Biannual Health Assessment at BFREE

We work with our partners in conservation, the Belize Foundation for Research and Environmental Education (BFREE), to ensure the long-term survival of the critically endangered Central American River Turtle (Dermatemys mawii), known locally in Belize as the Hicatee. This work entails managing the Hicatee Conservation and Research Center (HCRC), where we house an adult breeding […]