Blanding’s Turtle

The Blanding’s Turtle is a cold-hardy species found in the Upper Mississippi River basin and Great Lakes Region of the United States and Canada, as well as in disjunct populations in the Mid-Atlantic and New England regions of the United States and Nova Scotia in Maritime Canada. Although somewhat similar in appearance to the Spotted […]
Eastern Box Turtle

Eastern Box Turtles are found as far north as Maine, and as far west as Texas. They are also often found around the property at the Turtle Survival Center. The Eastern Box Turtle faces threats of habitat destruction and fragmentation, which can lead to an increase in road and railroad mortality. Although it is now […]
North American Wood Turtle

The range of the North American Wood Turtle spans several geographic regions of the United States and Canada, from the western peripheries of the Great Lakes to Maritime Canada and south through New England, the Mid-Atlantic, and into Northern Virginia. There, the North American Wood Turtle finds refuge in a mosaic of riparian woodlands, moist […]
Spotted Turtle

The Spotted Turtle (Clemmys guttata) lives in the United States and Canada and is a protected species within the South Carolina area. It has a carapace that is jet-black and has yellow dots all over, and usually, it is not more than five inches in length. It lives in shallow wetlands, swamps, and marshes.
Bog Turtle

The Bog Turtle is native to the Eastern United States, ranging from northeast Georgia to Massachusetts and western New York. The species lives in two disjunct management units, northern and southern, separated by ~270 miles (436 km). Although called the Bog Turtle, the species lives in stream-, spring-, and seep-fed fens, sedge meadows, sphagnum bogs, […]
Dave Collins

Dave joined the Turtle Survival Alliance in July 2021 as Director of North American Turtle Conservation and Program Leader of the AZA SAFE: American Turtle Program. Dave holds a bachelor’s degree in Biology from the State University of New York at Albany and brings over 40 years of experience in Zoos and Aquariums. He began […]