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2 unusual facts about Turtle Conservancy


Turtle Conservancy

Founder Eric Goode traveled to Madagascar to meet with Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust (DWCT) to discuss the status of the Critically Endangered Ploughshare Tortoise (Astrochelys yniphora).

The Behler Chelonian Center is a seven acre, AZA-Certified zoological facility founded in 2004, upon the request of John L. Behler (1943-2006), the international turtle conservationist and then Curator of Herpetology at the Bronx Zoo, to provide a home for Wildlife Conservation Society’s (WCS) established chelonian assurance colony.



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