Award Honorees - Tortoise and Freshwater Turtle Specialist Group

Arthur Georges, Award 2025

This year the 20th annual Behler Turtle Conservation Award celebrates and honors Arthur Georges. Arthur is an Australian ecologist and […]

This year the 19th annual Behler Turtle Conservation Award celebrates and honors Jeff Lovich. Jeff is a Research Ecologist with

This year the 18th annual Behler Award celebrates and honors Kurt Buhlmann, a founding Turtle Survival Alliance (TSA) member. Kurt

Vivian was born and raised in Bogotá, Colombia. Growing up, Vivian developed a passion for biology, which led her to

Shai hails from a small village on Jarwal Road near the Katarniaghat Wildlife Sanctuary, along the Indo-Nepal border in Uttar

Jim Juvik was born and raised in Sacramento, California, at a time when it was wonderful to grow up being

The 14th annual Behler Turtle Conservation Award celebrates and honors Shi Haitao, China’s most pre-eminent turtle ecologist and conservationist. He

The 13th annual Behler Turtle Conservation Award celebrates and honors Russell A. Mittermeier for his half-century of dedication to science

The 12th annual Behler Turtle Conservation Award celebrated and honored Peter Paul van Dijk for his quarter-century of dedication to

Eric Goode Receives the 11th Annual 2016 Behler Turtle Conservation Award Eric V. Goode Eric V. Goode, 2016 Behler Turtle