After a settling in period of three years for the parent animals, the first Amboina box turtle has now hatched at the Turtle Island breeding center. This spe...

Over 100 aquariums and 12 extra large stock tanks are prepared in the greenhouse we have started to hire. This allowed us to cope with a sudden and unexpecte...

The Northern River Terrapin, with fewer than 10 reproducing females worldwide, is one of the world’s most endangered animal species. After our female nested ...

Almost 700 turtles and tortoises were confiscated while attempting to be smuggled across the border from Bosnia into Croatia last November. When they were re...

Even earlier than last year, our Batagur baska female laid a clutch of 26 eggs at Turtle Island in Graz. 24 of these are developing and already show blood ve...

Today Turtle Island, in collaboration with Herbert Becker, a German turtle expert, sent 21 juvenile Vietnamese Pond Turtles (Mauremys annamensis) to the Taip...

You have to almost kill them 3 times! Well at least it seems that way. We are so pleased to announce our first ever Hardella thurjii (Crowned River Turtle) h...

The Batagur baska hatching at Turtle Island is complete! All 11 adorable hatchlings are so active, feeding on tender greens and are settling in well. We are ...

The world’s first breeding success of the Indian Eyed Turtle (Morenia petersi) just occurred at Turtle Island with four stunningly beautiful hatchlings from ...

The largest known specimen of one of the most critically endangered animal species on the planet laid 31 eggs for the first time at Turtle Island in Graz, Au...

After an initial cool diapause three hatchlings emerged out of their eggs for the very first time. This small, flat and strongly pigmented form of Indian Ten...

Professor Thomas Hildebrandt and Dr. Susanne Holtze recently visited Turtle Island to continue their research on the cryo-preservation of turtle sperm. To da...

The McCord’s Snake-Necked Turtle (Chelodina mccordi) used to occur only on one tiny island in Indonesia, called Roti Island. Due to the pet trade and habitat...

A group of the rarely kept Big-headed Amazon Turtles were provided by Waltraud and Ingo Pauler as a breeding loan. Two of the three females produced a clutch...

Last October the National Aquarium in Baltimore, USA succeeded in the first breeding of this rarely kept turtle species from the South American river systems...

Rupali Ghosh and Maksud Rahman succeeded in locating an additional female of the critically endangered Northern River Terrapin in the south of Bangladesh. Th...

The first Patzcuaro Salamanders were sent to the Hannover Medical School, Research Institute of the Ambystoma bio-regeneration center Niedersachsen. Christin...

The rounding up of the last known megacephalic Chinese Red-necked Pond Turtles (Mauremys nigricans) turn out to be very successful in the first year. The onl...

Together with Zoo Vienna, Turtle Island has sent a male of the Northern River Terrapin to India for breeding purposes. This morning the male arrived safe and...

The McCord’s snake-neck turtle (Chelodina mccordi) occurs only on the tiny Indonesian island of Roti. After its initial description in 1994 the species got m...