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NYTTS Annual Seminar, Saturday, March 10, 2012, 10:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m.
The Arsenal in Central Park, New Yok City

Scheduled Speakers:

     David M. Carroll, Naturalist, Artist, Author of The Year of the Turtle, Warner, New Hampshire

     Alison L. Whitlock, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Hadley, Massachusetts

     Peter C. H. Pritchard, Director, Chelonian Research Institute, Oviedo, Florida

Go to Seminar 2012 information and registration.





In Search of the Argentine Tortoise,
Held January 29, 2012, at The Arsenal in
Central Park, New Yok City

In Search of the Argentine Tortoise, was presented by Maurice Rodrigues from the Turtle Conservancy and the Behler Chelonian Center. The video takes us on a journey through Uruguay and Argentina where we search for the native turtles and tortoises of the region. We travel along the scenic coastlines of Uruguay to the vast deserts and mountains of Patagonia and ultimately, to the hot impenetrable forests of the northern Chaco.

The focus of the trip was to study the Argentine land tortoise’s ecology, status, and distribution. There has been confusion in the scientific community as to how many distinct subspecies exist. and we were there to find answers to that question. We also found and documented the spiny-neck turtle (Acanthochelys spixii) and the Chaco side-neck turtle (A. pallidipectoris) in the field. The DVD of this video is available from the Turtle Conservancy.



Left: Maurice Rodriguez, January 29 meeting speaker (photo by Kay Martin).  Right: After-meeting lunch at Lorri’s: Bill Cermak, Suzanne Dohme, Kay Martin, Sara Ramos, Jim Van Abbema, Anita Salzberg, Allen Salzberg; Standing: Alex Ypsilanti and Lorri Cramer (photo by Mitch Cramer)

NYTTS Meetings in Central Park

Meetings are held in the third-floor Gallery in the Arsenal building in Central Park. The Arsenal is located on 5th Avenue at 64th Street in front of the Central Park Zoo (see directions). Enter below the main stairs in the front of the building. Take the elevator to the third-floor Gallery.

Right: Typical NYTTS meeting in the Arsenal Gallery