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US Senator Martin Heinrich visits Bolson tortoise project.
TESF was honored by recent interest in the bolson tortoise project by US Senator Martin Heinrich and US Fish and Wildlife Service Director Martha Williams. With their support we should be able to release tortoises on the Sevilleta and Bosque National Wildlife...
Mike Phillips’s invited lecture to the First Reintroduction Conference, Valencia, Spain, May 2022.
https://vimeo.com/700097270/3a6e936178
Yellowstone is 150 years old, and better than ever.
Since its founding in 1872, Yellowstone has been a landscape of change. Click to see the article by David Frey that mentions our very own Mike Phillips and his work with wolf recovery . Frey_2022Download
This past month, the Turtle Conservancy Board of Directors and Staff were invited to participate in the release of 25 Bolson Tortoises back into their Pleistocene range.
These tortoises are part of a group raised on Ted Turner's Armendaris and Ladder Ranches in New Mexico. Turtle Conservancy — Ted Turner Saves TortoisesDownload
The Turner Endangered Species Fund and The Turtle Conservancy are working together to save imperiled tortoises from extinction.
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Mexican Wolves Released at Ted Turner’s Ladder Ranch. A Longstanding Dream Realized.
Click on this link below to see the article written by Mike Phillips in the Spring 2022 edition of the International Wolf Magazine. Phillips_2022-1Download
A male desert box turtle on Ted Turner’s Armendaris Ranch in southern New Mexico.
Ted Turner's Armendaris Ranch in southern New Mexico is home to many amazing Chihuahuan Desert animals, including a number of desert box turtles. These highly elusive animals seem to materialize out of nowhere after the monsoon rains form ephemeral puddles in the...
A hatchling Bolson tortoise enjoys a juicy treat of the fruit (“tunas”) of the prickly pear cactus.
Although their herbivorous diet consists mainly of grasses and other high-fiber plants, desert-dwelling tortoises - like this hatchling bolson tortoise born in 2021 as part of TESF's bolson tortoise breeding program in New Mexico - also enjoy juicy treats like the...
During a wildlife aerial survey on the Flying D ranch, we spotted this young wolf on 1-19-22. Since we are confident the Beartrap pack has not had gray colored pups since 2019 (and the 3 true grays in the pack have different pelage) we believe this to be a new wolf. Whether it is just passing through or incorporates itself into the pack remains to be seen.
US Senator Martin Heinrich visits Bolson tortoise project.
TESF was honored by recent interest in the bolson tortoise project by US Senator Martin Heinrich and US Fish and Wildlife Service Director Martha Williams. With their support we should be able to release tortoises on the Sevilleta and Bosque National Wildlife...
Mike Phillips’s invited lecture to the First Reintroduction Conference, Valencia, Spain, May 2022.
https://vimeo.com/700097270/3a6e936178
Yellowstone is 150 years old, and better than ever.
Since its founding in 1872, Yellowstone has been a landscape of change. Click to see the article by David Frey that mentions our very own Mike Phillips and his work with wolf recovery . Frey_2022Download
This past month, the Turtle Conservancy Board of Directors and Staff were invited to participate in the release of 25 Bolson Tortoises back into their Pleistocene range.
These tortoises are part of a group raised on Ted Turner's Armendaris and Ladder Ranches in New Mexico. Turtle Conservancy — Ted Turner Saves TortoisesDownload
The Turner Endangered Species Fund and The Turtle Conservancy are working together to save imperiled tortoises from extinction.
...
Mexican Wolves Released at Ted Turner’s Ladder Ranch. A Longstanding Dream Realized.
Click on this link below to see the article written by Mike Phillips in the Spring 2022 edition of the International Wolf Magazine. Phillips_2022-1Download
A male desert box turtle on Ted Turner’s Armendaris Ranch in southern New Mexico.
Ted Turner's Armendaris Ranch in southern New Mexico is home to many amazing Chihuahuan Desert animals, including a number of desert box turtles. These highly elusive animals seem to materialize out of nowhere after the monsoon rains form ephemeral puddles in the...
A hatchling Bolson tortoise enjoys a juicy treat of the fruit (“tunas”) of the prickly pear cactus.
Although their herbivorous diet consists mainly of grasses and other high-fiber plants, desert-dwelling tortoises - like this hatchling bolson tortoise born in 2021 as part of TESF's bolson tortoise breeding program in New Mexico - also enjoy juicy treats like the...