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The Turtle Conservation Fund (TCF) is a strategizing and funding partnership coalition of leading turtle conservation organizations and individuals focused on ensuring the long-term survival of tortoises and freshwater turtles

Malaysian giant turtles (Orlitia borneensis) in a holding pen in Medan, Sumatra, Indonesia, awaiting international export to the markets of Asia.
Photo 1999 by Chris R. Shepherd / TRAFFIC Southeast Asia

TURTLE CONSERVATION FUND

A Partnership Coalition of Leading Turtle Conservation Organizations and Individuals
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Strategic Action Planning and Funding Support for Conservation of
Threatened Tortoises and Freshwater Turtles (turtleconservationfund.org)

TCF International Partnership Coalition

Re:wild • Chelonian Research Foundation • Turtle Conservancy •
IUCN SSC Tortoise and Freshwater Turtle Specialist Group • Turtle Survival Alliance •
Turtle Sanctuary Conservation Center (France) • The Panaphil Foundation 

TCF Summary Activity Report 2002–2018

TCF Review Board

Co-Chairs: Anders G.J. Rhodin ([email protected]) and Russell A. Mittermeier ([email protected]);
Vice-Chairs: Vivian P. Páez ([email protected]) and Peter Paul van Dijk ([email protected]);
Gary Ades, Brian C. Bock, Kurt A. Buhlmann, Marc Dupuis-Désormeaux, Carla C. Eisemberg, Camila Ferrara, Matt Frankel,
Natalia Gallego-García, Arthur Georges, Paul M. Gibbons, Eric V. Goode, Cris Hagen, Brian D. Horne,
Rick Hudson, John B. Iverson, Gerald Kuchling, Luca Luiselli, George Meyer, Kalyar Platt,
Hugh R. Quinn, Martina Raffel, Haitao Shi, Craig B. Stanford, Denise M. Thompson,
Tracey D. Tuberville, Bruce J. Weissgold, and Andrew D. Walde

TCF Mission
To ensure that no species of tortoise or freshwater turtle becomes extinct
and that sustainable populations of all species persist in the wild