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Preserving Options for the
Recovery of Wild Populations
An IUCN Partnership Network for Sustainable Captive Management of Freshwater Turtles and Tortoises
JULY 2005
Publication supported by:
TURTLE SURVIVAL ALLIANCE
The mission of TSA is to develop and maintain an inclusive, broad-based global network of
collections of living tortoises and freshwater turtles with the primary goal of maintaining chelonian
species over the long term to provide maximum future options for the recovery of wild populations.
www.turtlesurvival.org
The future for Pan's box turtle (Cuora pani) got a little brighter when two TSA partner institu-
tions, Zoo Atlanta and Riverbanks Zoo, successfully hatched this poorly known Chinese endemic
in 2004. Shown here is the Riverbanks Zoo specimen at nearly one year of age.
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Dear TSA Supporter:
Welcome to the fi fth Turtle Survival Alliance Newsletter. This has been an exciting and productive
year and while there is much work to be done, we have many accomplishments to celebrate. We
write this amidst the preparation and planning leading up to the third annual TSA conference
that will be held in San Diego in July. Program Chair Chuck Schaffer and others have assembled
a dynamic panel of speakers, and this promises to be a great meeting. The TSA conference
continues to grow and is becoming an important gathering of turtle biologists, enthusiasts and
conservationists, and we anticipate that the meeting will expand in scope in the coming years.
The most exciting development of 2005 has been the $100,000 grant to the TSA from the Batchelor
Foundation. These funds will support much needed range-country turtle conservation programs
(see article). We are particularly grateful to Bill Zeigler for cultivating the relationship with the
Batchelor Foundation, one we hope to grow over the coming years for the long-term benefi t of
turtles.
In preparation for administering this grant and to ensure funds are responsibly and effectively
directed, we recently visited several turtle fac