Turtle Survival Alliance is a global conservation organization that works to create a planet where tortoises and freshwater turtles can thrive in the wild. Our science-based initiatives are directed by local leaders, inspiring sustainable, community-based stewardship to prevent extinctions.

Learn how the Turtle Survival Alliance protects and restores wild populations of tortoises and freshwater turtles through science-based conservation, global leadership, and local stewardship around the world.

The over-arching goal of the Turtle Survival Alliance Madagascar program is to engage communities to protect tortoises in their native habitat, conserve forests through active management, dissuade poaching through revitalizing cultural traditions and holding those accountable who break them, seize and provide long-term care for illegally collected

The Turtle Survival Alliance Volunteer Science program is an undergraduate research experience/citizen scientist volunteer program directed by academic and non-academic professionals and committed to long-term turtle population monitoring.

We, the Turtle Survival Alliance and IUCN/SSC Tortoise and Freshwater Turtle Specialist Group, invite you to join us for the 23rd Annual Symposium on the Conservation and Biology of Tortoises and Freshwater Turtles, July 20-25, 2025, in Chattanooga, Tennessee.

Sep 12, 2022 · TSA launched a program in Madagascar in response to the widespread, and rapidly expanding, poaching of Radiated Tortoises that we uncovered in 2010, which ‚Äì if left unchecked ‚Äì would likely lead to the extinction of this iconic, and once abundant, species.

Located in Cross, South Carolina, the Turtle Survival Center (TSC) was founded to support our mission of zero turtle extinctions worldwide. Since 2013, we have established scientifically managed populations of critically endangered species and provided involvement opportunities for turtle conservationists of all ages.

Save Turtles.® event. Hosting an average of more than 300 attendees, the Annual Symposium represents the largest gathering of non-marine turtle biologists in the world and provides an unrivaled opportunity for networking and strategizing turtle conservation.

The Turtle Survival Alliance (TSA) and IUCN/SSC Tortoise and Freshwater Turtle Specialist Group (TFTSG) welcome you to attend the 20th Annual Symposium on the Conservation and Biology of Tortoises and Freshwater Turtles in sunny Tucson, Arizona.

Jan 17, 2025 · Antananarivo, Madagascar – Turtle Survival Alliance announced today that torrential rains from Tropical Cyclone Dikeledi have triggered devastating floods in Madagascar’s Atsimo-Andrefana Region, submerging the Lavavolo Tortoise Center (LTC). The cyclone swept past southern Madagascar on January 16 from the Mozambique Channel, intensifying ...