World Turtle Day®

#Shellebrate annual #WorldTurtleDay May 23rd! Spreading awareness on illegal pet trade, live food markets and habitat destruction. Founded by @tortoiserescue.

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HAPPY WORLD TURTLE DAY! 🐢

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World Turtle Day 2026 was SHELL-MAZING!!!!

From what we've been able to count online, this year's shellebration was 380x BIGGER than last year's, with over 90 million of you SHOWING UP for turtles!

Thank you to every organization, individual, beach cleanup, zoo talk, Twitch stream, road-crossing assist, and everything else you do to help ensure turtles remain on this Earth with us.

We couldn't have done this without you, and we CAN'T continue this work without you. We look forward to shellebrating turtles all year long! 🐢💚

[BrainlessDoor @BrainlessDoor]

Thanks again! Lmao I love it!

@WorldTurtleDay

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@BrainlessDoor Amazing. Evil approves.

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@douglasyardley shoot us an email to claim your prize! [email protected]

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Shellfie WINNERS! Check your DMs so we can send you your gear! Keep posting your shellfies and tagging us! We'll be opening up a new contest soon and everything will be entered!

More winners to come. Get ready to SHELLBRATE! 🐢

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Thank you so much for Shellebrating #WorldTurtleDay with us! We had A LOT of entries, which made choosing winners as hard as a tortoises shell!

Shellfie winners @ quincysusan on instagram and Josh Mohr on Facebook!
Turtle Art winners @ TheArtGD and @ prestonmiguelchristi on instagram!

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@jfxgillis you got this, bud.

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@TurtlezDotFun Thanks for Shellebrating!!!

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Happy World Turtle Day! 🙌

Lets see your beautiful TURTLEZ! ❤️🐢

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@soflartist @OlHippyTCF it's okay... World Turtle Day is every day if you want it to be... drinking with chickens on the other hand... lol

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@OlHippyTCF @soflartist lol same

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@TheCartoonBase i like turtles

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In honor of World Turtle Day, who’s your favorite cartoon turtle?

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@Lx1mz @_rRand0m If anyone can understand going at a slow pace it's turtle people! Hope you had a good World Turtle Day!

[Chief Pat Gatz - Little Eagle A.I. @chieflittleagle]

Happy World Turtle Day❗️🐢🪶

The Native Ways taught us the turtle is NOT just an ANIMAL❗️

It is TEACHING❗️
It is TIME❗️
It is BALANCE❗️
It is KNOWLEDGE❗️
It is the RIGHT WAY❗️
It is the NATIVE WAYS❗️🪶

The turtle shell carries a powerful reminder:

13 large plates = 13 moons

[🧨 Ferndale Int’l Observatory @AgWriterArk]

A belated happy World Turtle Day!

#CHOMP

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World Turtle Day® 2026 was turtley incredible!
Thank you for Shellebrating with us!

Every shellfie, every post, every rescue, every conversation matters. Because of YOU, turtles have more people fighting for them every single day.

Keep those shellfies and artwork submissions coming! We’ll be announcing some winners for official World Turtle Day® gear over the next few days. 👀🐢

[BWRiverkeeper @BWRiverkeeper]

#Alabama has more #freshwater #turtle #species than any state! The Flattened musk turtle is the only freshwater turtle that is completely #endemic to Alabama. Endemic to the #BlackWarriorRiver #watershed, it is a threatened species under the #EndangeredSpeciesAct. #WorldTurtleDay

[Manhattan Bird Alert @BirdCentralPark]

For World Turtle Day, a Common Snapping Turtle, native to Central Park. The species is an ultimate survivor, largely unchanged for nearly 90 million years. 🐢 🧡

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There’s a lot you can do to help turtles, but here are 3 easy things anyone can do 🐢

Search our resources page to find help near you. https://t.co/UwgkHBSh52

If you run a rescue, rehab, sanctuary, vet office, or turtle resource, add yourself to the list so your community can find you too!