North American Box Turtle Conservation Comittee

The North American Box Turtle Conservation Committee is excited to announce the 2026 North American Box Turtle Conservation Symposium, to be held October 23 through October 25, 2026, at Washburn University and the Topeka Zoo and Conservation Center in Topeka, Kansas.

Neil Bernstein will provide the keynote address highlighting his decades of work investigating the Ornate Box Turtle in one of the longest running box turtle studies in the country.  

The workshop invites papers and posters on Terrapene population trends, ecology, life history strategies, epidemiology, systematics, and land management, among other topics.

The conference website can be found here: https://www.washburn.edu/academics/college-schools/arts-sciences/biology/box-turtle-conservation-workshop/index.html

We look forward to seeing you in Kansas!