Turtle Survival Alliance

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by Jordan Gray  Alligator Snapping Turtle (Macrochelys sp.) Countries of Origin: United States of America IUCN Status: Vulnerable Estimated surviving population: Unknown Habitat: Rivers, creeks, spring...

by Jordan Gray A large juvenile Radiated Tortoise sits beside the commemorative stone placed at our Itampolo tortoise facility. On a late June morning, 62...

Kalyar Platt, TSA’s new Turtle Conservation Coordinator in Myanmar has hit the ground running since starting in her position last month. Charged with overseeing the...

by Rick Hudson  Day 4 finally rolled around and it was time to sit back and listen to presentations on some of what are considered model...

by¬†Heather Lowe¬† Kalyar Platt, the TSA’s Turtle Conservation Coordinator in Myanmar, recently returned to Yangon from the newly completed Arakan forest turtle (Heosemys depressa) facility...

by¬†Rick Hudson¬† TSA and The Orianne Society are launching a partnership to develop strategies for saving this iconic symbol of Madagascar’s southern spiny forest. We...

by¬†Jordan Gray¬† For Immediate Release September 19, 2018 TURTLE BIOLOGISTS OUTLINE ECOLOGICAL REPERCUSSIONS OF A WORLD WITHOUT TURTLES Charleston, South Carolina ‚Äì Daudin’s Giant Tortoise....

by Heather Lowe  From January 2009 to September 2010, TSA teams worked in Myanmar to develop concepts and designs for new breeding facilities for key chelonian...

by Henk Zwartepoorte Over the past few years in Hong Kong, large numbers of illegally imported and/or traded turtles have been confiscated. On one hand,...

by Thomas Rainwater  Just a quick note to say we just successfully completed the first of two Hicatee (Central American River Turtle, Dermatemys mawii) Survey and...

by Thomas Rainwater  We just completed the second of our two Hicatee (Dermatemys mawii) Survey and Monitoring Workshops in Belize. After several days down south for...

by Heather Lowe  The nesting season for wild Asian river terrapins (Batagur) is winding down, just on the heels of the recently completed Batagur workshop in...