Celebrating 10 years of education, conservation, and survival! Exactly 10 years ago, theTurtleRoom launched as a website with the dream of providing a platform where a community of like-minded turtle enthusiasts and keepers could gather to share resources and knowledge. This journey began with myself and Joe Sullivan as the main contributors to the site, but soon added Anthony Pierlioni and others to the team […]
Dear Friends, It would be safe to say that 2020 has not gone how any of us expected. Yet, that did not stop conservation, education, and research from happening around the world, including at theTurtleRoom (tTR). In spite of the economic hardship many have faced during 2020, you, our loyal supporters, have continued to bless us with your generosity, allowing us to grow and expand
2020: Another Step Forward Read More »
TheTurtleRoom’s President and Executive Director reflects on both the last nine years and the current state of humanity. Nine years. I almost can’t believe it has been that long since theTurtleRoom launched as a website for turtle keepers to collect and share knowledge about these animals we love so much. As those of you who follow our work have seen, in these nine years, theTurtleRoom
Letter from the President, June 2020 Read More »
Steve and Chris release the studbook’s 4th edition. We are proud to announce the release of the 4th edition of the Western Hermann’s Tortoise North American Regional Studbook. Significant changes have been made as a result of new genetic information regarding the species. The studbook is now divided into four management units for conservation action, following the recommendations from the aforementioned research; but specific locales
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theTurtleRoom Launches New Data-Keeping App —Lancaster County, PA TheTurtleRoom is proud to announce the launch of Digital Chelonian Log (DCL), a new data-keeping web-app available on any device with an internet connection and a web browser. Digital Chelonian Log brings a level of data-keeping to any turtle keeper that previously cost hundreds or thousands of dollars per year. At launch, DCL will include two different
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Guest Jordan Gray discusses theTurtleRoom’s first official in-situ conservation effort, a collaboration with TSA’s NAFTRG. What do you get when you add a group of gung-ho turtle enthusiasts, hours of satellite reconnaissance, hundreds of emails, permit applications and cool montane streams? Wood turtles…and a gaggle of other chelonians to boot. Such was the goal when Eric Munscher, Director of the Turtle Survival Alliance’s North American
tTR and NAFTRG Join Forces for Monitoring Project Read More »
TheTurtleRoom Presents First Annual ChelEd Award This post has been updated on 2/26/2020. TheTurtleRoom is proud to announce the first ChelEd Award for Lifetime Achievement in Chelonian Education. One of theTurtleRoom’s core beliefs is that all conservation begins with education. This award was created to recognize individuals who share that belief and have lived their lives by that belief. The inaugural recipient of the award
Dr. Peter Pritchard Receives 2015 ChelEd Award Read More »
Steve and Chris release the studbook’s 3rd Edition. We are proud to announce the release of the 3rd edition of the Western Hermann’s Tortoise North American Regional Studbook. Once again, there are new founder animals and plenty of new offspring listed in the studbook. Within the last year, we took DNA samples from most of the animals in the studbook and had them tested (a
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Kévin Labille joined Anthony and Steve to talk about African Chelonian Institute, which launches their first website on Monday, March 9th. Please go visit the page and sign up for their newsletter! We’re excited to partner with them in the development of their new site! Kévin also challenged Anthony to identify the species in their logo – watch to see how Anthony fared, find out what species it is, and how to identify it!
Anthony and Steve also talked extensively about the development of our new logo and new website, as well as which species we used as a basis for the silhouettes in our new logo.
The Pondcast, Episode 15 Read More »
