This action plan was compiled in close collaboration with Drs. Ed Moll, Peter Pritchard and Ian Swingland. I would like to thank them and all those members and correspondents of the Tortoise and Freshwater Turtle Specialist Group who sent me information and comments on the first draft. Many thanks also to John Iverson for permission to reproduce some of his species distribution maps, to Peter Pritchard and Ed Moll and families for their hospitality, and to the staff at the SSC Executive Office in Gland: Steve Edwards, Simon Stuart, Nicole Hennlich, and Patricia Chable. Special thanks are due to the World Wide Fund for Nature—International, the American Association of Zoological Parks and Aquariums, and the People's Trust for Endangered Species for providing much needed support for the preparation of this action plan. The support of the Durrell Institute of Conservation and Ecology at the University of Kent at Canterbury is also gratefully acknowledged.
David Stubbs
Action Plan Compiler, IUCN/SSC
Tortoise and Freshwater Turtle
Specialist Group