CheloniaCast sits down with Dr. Peter Paul van Dijk, Senior Director of Wildlife Trade at Re:wild, to discuss turtle conservation and the turtle trade. The conversation ranges from exploring what drives the turtle trade globally, turtle trade dynamics, how turtle trade is quantified, stories from studying wildlife trade, and the prospects of effectively protecting turtles and tortoises.
You can learn more about Re:wild (formerly Global Wildlife Conservation) here: https://www.rewild.org/
Learn more about the IUCN/SSC Tortoise and Freshwater Turtle Specialist Group here: https://iucn-tftsg.org/pub-chron/
Learn more about the CheloniaCast podcast at theturtleroom.org/cheloniacast
You can contribute directly to student led turtle and tortoise research through the CheloniaCast Student Research Fund here: https://theturtleroom.org/project/cheloniacast-podcast/
Follow CheloniaCast on Instagram/Facebook/Twitter @cheloniacast
Host socials - Jason Wills - @chelonian.carter / Michael Skibsted - @michael.skibstedd / Jack Thompson - @jack_reptile_naturalist_302 / Ken Wang - @americanmamushi / Wyatt Keil - @wyatts_wildlife_photography
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