TORTOISE Magazine

Full-color print magazine that has been published since 2011. It unites photographers, artists, and conservationists to creatively champion turtle preservation and broader environmental concerns. Articles span the globe and cover topics like wildlife trafficking, climate change impacts on species, and interviews with known figures such as the founder of Patagonia, Yvon Chouinard

TED DANSON

LETTER FROM THE EDITOR

CONTRIBUTORS

TURTLE CONSERVANCY AROUND THE WORLD

CONCEPTUAL CLIMATE • Installation featuring TC at COP26 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Glasgow

WE LIKE TURTLES

THINK GLOBALLY. ACT LOCALLY. • TC joins neighbors to plant native trees on former farmland in the Ojai Valley

BUSTED! • International turtle smugglers get prison time

12,000 Years Later • A visit to Ted Turner’s New Mexico ranches where Bolson Tortoises are being released into the wild in the United States for the first time in a dozen millennia

BOGGED DOWN AND NOWHERE TO GO • America’s smallest Chelonian confronts a daunting array of survival challenges

NORTH CAROLINA • On the front line of Bog Turtle restoration

Stolen World THE ANTHROPOCENE • AS EXAMINED BY KEN GODDARD, BESTSELLING AUTHOR AND HEAD OF THE FORENSIC CRIME LAB OF THE U.S. FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE

Cheers TO CONSERVATION • Ted Danson speaks with the Turtle Conservancy about his journey from acting to activism

TURTLES WIN IN BATTLE • Biological control of mosquitoes by sliders helps eliminate diseases such as dengue, Zika, and chikungunya in Honduras

MARVELOUS and MELANCHOLY • The Cabinets and Wonders of Mark Dion

WITNESSING A POPULATION COLLAPSE • Field research in South Africa reveals the perils closing in on the only documented population of Endangered Karoo Dwarf Tortoises

GIANT MYSTERY • The extinct Giant Tortoises of Australia and Islands of the Southwest Pacific—how did they get there and why and when did they disappear?

UNHINGED • Insights into the conservation efforts of the uniquely hinged sub-Saharan African genus Kinixys

WHAT ABOUT A “HINGE-BOTTOM” TORTOISE? • Are Spider Tortoises slowly losing or gaining a hinge?

The life of Russell A. Mittermeier

THOMAS E. LOVEJOY • (AUGUST 22, 1941–DECEMBER 25, 2022)

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