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TFTSG Membership

The TFTSG currently has 237 members from 43 nations who work or focus their efforts in 102 nations.
(For global maps of where TFTSG members live, work or focus, click here)

Membership in the TFTSG is by invitation only, based on experience, expertise,
and leadership in freshwater turtle or tortoise conservation and/or biology.

Please contact Anders Rhodin if you would like to be considered for TFTSG membership. We are especially interested in new members from nations under-represented in the membership, and who are focused on scientific research and/or conservation efforts for tortoises and/or freshwater turtles. We are always interested in new members with turtle and/or tortoise expertise and a passion for their conservation. Turtles are in serious trouble and need all the help they can get. If you feel that you are interested and would like to contribute to our work, please contact us. Although membership is considered an honor earned, it is also a responsibility to participate and to contribute actively to our turtle conservation efforts. We focus primarily on scientific evaluations of status and threats analysis, and help to catalyze conservation action, while avoiding non-scientific advocacy. For more detailed information on the work and activities of the TFTSG, see this link.

For a short history of the TFTSG and its former leadership, click here.

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TFTSG Executive Committee:

Anders G.J. Rhodin (Chair TFTSG, Co-Chair TCF) [Send Email]
Peter Paul van Dijk (Deputy Chair TFTSG, Red List Focal Point) [Send Email]
Russell A. Mittermeier [Send Email]
Peter C.H. Pritchard [Send Email]

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TFTSG Steering Committee and  IUCN Red List Authority:

Harry V. Andrews, India
Ernst H.W. Baard, South Africa
Kristin H. Berry, USA
Kurt A. Buhlmann, USA
Indraneil Das, Malaysia
Arthur Georges, Australia
J. Whitfield Gibbons, USA
Douglas B. Hendrie, Vietnam
Rick Hudson, USA (Co-Chair TSA)
John B. Iverson, USA
Gerald Kuchling,  Australia
Michael Lau, China
Dwight P. Lawson, USA (Co-Chair TSA)
Jeffrey E. Lovich, USA
Luca Luiselli, Italy
Russell A. Mittermeier, USA
Edward O. Moll, USA
Vivian P. Páez, Colombia
Hans-Dieter Philippen, Germany
Peter C.H. Pritchard, USA
Hugh R. Quinn, USA (Co-Chair TCF)
Herilala Randriamahazo, Madagascar
Anders G.J. Rhodin, USA (Chair TFTSG, Co-Chair TCF)
H. Bradley Shaffer, USA
Dionysius S.K. Sharma, Malaysia
Shi Haitao, China
Peter Paul van Dijk, USA (Deputy Chair TFTSG, Red List Focal Point)
Richard C. Vogt, Brazil

TFTSG Membership (2004-2008 Quadrennium)

 
Former TFTSG members 1981–2004