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Wilton Land Trust 2025 Annual Public Meeting
Wilton Land Trust‘s 60th Annual Meeting will feature presentations from the Trust’s president, treasurer, executive director and keynote speaker. The meeting will occur on Wednesday, Feb. 26, in the Brubeck Room at the Wilton Library.
5:30 p.m. — Members Meeting: Trustees will vote on the 2025 budget and members will elect trustees before the Board votes on the slate of officers.
6:30 p.m. — Doors open for refreshments and mingling before the Annual Public Meeting.
7 p.m. — Annual Public Meeting: We will hear from our newly-elected president, the executive director and keynote speaker Anthony Pierlioni.
The highlight of the evening is hearing from Pierlioni, our guest speaker — author, world-traveling conservationist and vice president of theTurtleRoom. He’ll dive into the global turtle crisis and bring live turtles and tortoises for an up-close experience. This is an event you won’t want to miss!
Pierlioni has published articles in Reptiles Magazine (USA), The Batagur (USA), Radiata, (Germany), Testudo (Italy), and Trionyx (The Netherlands). His first book, Black-Breasted Leaf Turtles – The Natural History, Captive Care, and Breeding of Geoemyda spengleri and Geoemyda Japonica, was published by Living Art Publishing in 2016.
Anthony Pierlioni’s 2025 Keynote Talk
The global turtle crisis has seen many species go extinct before our eyes. Through a lifetime of work as a champion for the world’s most endangered vertebrate group, the impact humans can have on wild spaces cannot be ignored.
The fauna and flora that rely on these sensitive ecosystems depend on not only the preservation of their species but also on saving the wild spaces they call home. Today, the global turtle crisis that started in Southeast Asia is now seeing the turtles from Connecticut being impacted at unsustainable levels.
