Several articles have been written about the Institute and its director, Dr. Peter Pritchard. The following links will take you to the articles and videos featuring Dr. Pritchard; these pages will open in a new tab.
January 2012 – Orlando Magazine profiles Dr. Peter Pritchard and Sibille Pritchard in their article about nine overachievers in the Orlando area.
December 14, 2011 – Dr. Pritchard named Turtle Tycoon by the Seminole Voice!
May 18, 2011 – Dr. Pritchard (co-patron of the Guyana Marine Turtle Conservation Society) participates in the commissioning ceremony for a new field station at Almond Beach, Region One, Guyana.
Conservation Field Station Commissioned
April 22, 2011 – The Orlando Sentinel publishes an Earth Day Q&A with Dr. Pritchard
Earth Day Q&A with renowned turtle expert Peter Pritchard
October 13, 2010 – Dr. Pritchard is interviewed by Ocean Ecology Network
February 18, 2010 - Dr. Pritchard on YouTube! An appearance on the Global Perspectives Program with John Bersia of the University of Central Florida.
UCF Global Perspectives – Peter Pritchard
January 15, 2010 – Central Florida Future.com describes an appearance and talk by Dr. Pritchard at the University of Central Florida.
December 1, 2009 – Fox 35 Good Day (Orlando) interviews Peter Pritchard.
Good Day talks to Turtle Researcher
June 24, 2009 – Central Florida Future.com publishes an article about the exhibit on Galapagos reptiles presented by the University of Central Florida Library and the Chelonian Research Institute.
Reptiles of the Galapagos honors Darwin
April 8, 2009 – An article from Conservation International.
Peter Pritchard: The “Godfather” of turtles
February, 2009 – Orlando magazine features the home of Peter and Sibille Pritchard in this article.
September, 2008 – Peter Pritchard receives the 2008 Behler Turtle Conservation Award. See Peter’s acceptance speech here.
2008 Behler Turtle Conservation Award
March 13, 2008 – Growing Bolder posts a video about Peter and the Institute.
January 13, 2008 – The Orlando Sentinel writes about Peter Pritchard and Sibille Hart Pritchard.
For “Turtleman” Peter Pritchard and wife, love is a shell game
November 7, 2007 - The Times Literary Supplement publishes a review of Peter’s book “Tales from the Thébaïde.” Click to save the file and then open it (pdf file).
Thébaïde Review in the Times Literary Supplement
January 7, 2001 – An article in the Orlando Sentinel about Peter’s work
March 13, 2000 – Time names Dr. Peter Pritchard one of their Heroes for the Planet.
Tickled about turtles (Time magazine)
February 21, 2000 – An article about Peter’s Hero for the Planet designation reprinted from the Orlando Sentinel on the Herp Care Collection website.
Peter Pritchard: Hero for the Planet
1990 – A video originally filmed in 1990 that details the need for the formation of Las Baulas de Guanacaste National Park in Costa Rica, home to leatherback turtles. Dr. Pritchard narrates, explaining why the park is necessary.
For all time: Saving the leatherback turtles of Costa Rica
1989 – In 1989, documentary filmmaker Danny Miller made a great turtle movie from Dr. Pritchard’s 16 mm film archives. The first part of the video is about Santa Catalina Island and the Turtle Planet follows (beginning at 4:22)
