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Chris Leone

Chris Leone is the founder of Garden State Tortoise, a New Jersey-based turtle and tortoise rescue, captive breeding, and conservation facility.

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APPEARANCES

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PODCASTS

Oct 7, 2026

Garden State Tortoise & Anthony Pierlioni on Turtle Conservation Propagation | Reptiles With Podcast

Oct 7 · 47m

speaker_2HOST

29:46

Um, being, you know, being the gold standard in something like that helps-

Chris LeoneGUEST

29:50

helps-Set the stage for up and comers.

Chris LeoneGUEST

29:53

They're like, "You know what? I wanna do it that way.

Chris LeoneGUEST

29:55

I wa- I wanna be, you know, that kind of level.

Chris LeoneGUEST

29:57

I wanna do it by the books.

Chris LeoneGUEST

29:58

I wanna do it the right way 'cause I wanna be seen." Some people don't care how they look.

Chris LeoneGUEST

30:02

They don't care what anybody thinks.

speaker_2HOST

33:09

Mm-hmm.

Turtle Tea with TTPG

Turtle Tea with TTPG

Greek Tortoise Deep Dive with Chris Leone

Jun 28 · 1h 12m

Wendy MontroyHOST

20:52

Yeah.

Chris LeoneGUEST

20:53

Yes.

Chris LeoneGUEST

20:53

And especially in these papers, they're horrible.

Chris LeoneGUEST

21:00

If you're going to describe a species or a subspecies or even a locality and try to get people to absorb it, it's all in the visual.

Chris LeoneGUEST

21:09

Even the biggest academics out there, when you're reading something, after a while it just gets, okay, what? I need to see it.

Chris LeoneGUEST

21:18

And that's where I think they could be doing a better job.

Chris LeoneGUEST

21:20

First of all, show the photographs of the exact animals you sampled.

9 MINS LATER

Wendy MontroyHOST

30:22

Yeah.