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June 22, 2026
Turtle poaching is local: why we keep locations vague

A single geotagged photo can lead a poacher straight to a wild turtle — and turtle trafficking is happening right now in Virginia, Maryland, and the Carolinas. Why we blur the details, and how you can share turtles responsibly too.

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A box turtle in a forest
May 4, 2026
Ask Susie: building an AI assistant that knows what it doesn't know

Wildlife care is not a domain where an AI can afford to make things up. Here's why we built a strictly grounded AI assistant for our rehabbers — and how retrieval-augmented generation makes it trustworthy.

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Eastern box turtle in grass
April 13, 2026
AI in wildlife rehabilitation: from paper notes to life-saving insights

How we used Claude, Anthropic's AI assistant, to turn handwritten field notes into a working spreadsheet, catch a data entry error, and surface growth insights that were invisible on paper — and why it matters for rehabbers everywhere.

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Diamondback terrapin hatchling peeking over a rock