Held at Chapman University, August 1990. Contents include: Review of the IUCN/SSC action plan for turtles and tortoises; status of the western pond turtle; status and conservation of map and bog turtles; wood turtles in Michigan; husbandry of the eastern clemmys; breeding batagurine; semi-aquatic and aquatic turtles; goper tortoise conservation; status of the desert tortoise in 1990; the plight of Galapagos tortoises; husbandry of the endangered Madagascar ploughshare tortoise: breeding Asian forest and radiated tortoises; sea turtle conservation.