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Shop for Conservation
Are you shopping on Amazon today? Add Turtle Conservancy to your AmazonSmile account, and when you purchase at smile.amazon.com, we will receive part of the proceeds. Visit our donation page to learn more ways to support us while you shop. Add conservation of wild lands and turtles to your shopping cart!
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Save for Giving Tuesday
After Black Friday and Cyber Monday comes #GivingTuesday! Reconnect communities and wildlife with us next Tuesday, November 27, by making a gift to the Turtle Conservancy. Make a gift today!
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CRISIS IN MADAGASCAR!
Help us save Madagascar's imperiled turtles and tortoises this holiday season.
The Turtle Conservancy is on the forefront of the fight against the illegal wildlife trade in Madagascar. We work on both ends of the supply chain in Madagascar and Asia. Numerous articles and network news stories have covered our work fighting the trade in endangered tortoises, including CBS 60 Minutes, Charlie Rose, The New Yorker, click on the link below to learn more and make a donation today. Give your gift today to save Madagascar's imperiled tortoises.
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TC Board Meeting
Alamos, Mexico
The Turtle Conservancy's biannual board meeting was held this fall in the beautiful town of Alamos in Sonora, Mexico. The three day gathering included members from the TC's board and other Mexican conservation stakeholders. The delegation surveyed the 1000-acre protected area that the TC and its partners (Global Wildlife Conservation, Rainforest Trust and Andrew Sabin Family Foundation) purchased to expand Nature and Culture International's wildlife preserve to over 18,000 acres. The preserve protects six species of turtles and tortoises, including the Goode's Thornscrub Tortoise named after TC co-founder Eric Goode, along with a healthy population of jaguars, military macaws, beaded lizards and many other tropical and subtropical species...
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Conservation Center Updates
Asian Temperate Greenhouse
This month we just finished setting up a new enclosure system in our Asian Temperate Greenhouse, which hosts our Okinawa leaf turtles, Black breasted leaf turtles and our Impressed tortoises. The idea was to reorganized the space of this building originally setup in 2006 at our conservation center…
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Dreaming in Turtle
Peter Laufer’s latest book, Dreaming in Turtle, is called “a masterpiece of nature writing” by professor of biological sciences at the University of Southern California and author of The Last Tortoise, Craig Stanford.
The book is a fascinating exploration into the world of turtles across the globe; Laufer charts the lore, love, and peril to a beloved species.
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Official Launch of IOTA
Indian Ocean Tortoise Alliance
The Turtle Conservancy is proud to welcome the newly formed conservation organization, Indian Ocean Tortoise Alliance, created by conservation philanthropist Thomas Kaplan, to the turtle and tortoise conservation community. TC co-founder Eric Goode has been invited to join the board of directors.
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In Memory of Carl Ernst
The wildlife world mourns the passing of Dr. Carl H. Ernst on Saturday, November 3, 2018 at the age of 80 years. Dr. Ernst served as a Research Associate in the Division of Amphibians and Reptiles, Department of Zoology, Smithsonian Institution from 1972 until his death...
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