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What Citadel Culebra is

A real school the whole reptile world can call home.

01—The Mark

The serpent is the most villainized animal alive — and the oldest symbol of healing we have.

02—The Standard

A shared standard, drawn from the best of many keepers and many ways of doing things.

03—Capturing the Knowledge

The hardest-won knowledge in this field lives in a handful of people. We catch it before it's gone.

04—Conservation

Education is the key to conservation — the truth Steve Irwin lived by. You don't save what you fear; you save what you love.

Teach the world to love these animals, and you've already started saving them.

05—The Education

A complete education in the craft — taught by the people who actually keep these animals for a living.

The only credential that counts

Our accreditation is the faculty.

No agency certifies reptile knowledge. So we hold a harder standard: the top people in the world across 14 disciplines — keepers, breeders, venom labs, zoo directors, field scientists — teaching under one roof. One expert can be wrong. When McCurley, Crutchfield, Park, and Van Horn are all telling you the same thing, that's as certified as this field gets.

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