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I am a board member of a herpetological society that is considering donating some money to organizations who aim to help herps, be it through doing research or conservation efforts. In order to better choose which organizations we should consider, we would like some suggestions from the kingsnake.com community.

If you know of a particular organization that you think is particularly deserving, please post it's name here or email me with the information.

A similar post will be placed in other forums, so please suggest organizations only related to helping out snakes.

Thank you for your help.

I'm assuming you are looking for herp-related orgs.

I'm in Baltimore, and the MARS (http://www.reptileinfo.com/rescue.html) is a good place to start. They have a big reptile show every year that raises money for her-related causes, including a rescue here and buying rainforest in Costa Rica. If you contact someone there, they know the herp worthy cause scene pretty well.

I also like tortoise trust, (http://www.tortoisetrust.org/), and the Asian Turtle Consortium has a list of chelonian-related sites that include conservation orgs (http://www.asianturtle.org/links.htm)

Good luck,
Billy Brown

Here's a couple:

Gopher Tortoise Council (www.gophertortoisecouncil.org)

and, there is under-funded research going on at The University of Georgia in Athens, GA for Eastern Indigos. Natalie Hyslop is the Biologist in charge of the project, and is doing Radio-Telemetry work to try to establish how much range, what sort of habitat features, etc. are needed for Eastern Indigos, which may eventually lead to a workable repatriation plan. Her address for donations:

Natalie Hyslop
Warnell School of Forest Resources
The University of Georgia
Athens, GA 30602-2152