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Culebra Chronicles.
The Culebra Chronicles is our podcast — real, reptile-related conversations with the up-and-comers, the GOATs, and the pioneers who built this field, told in their own words.
Plus the written journal: faculty spotlights, breakthroughs, field notes, and the conversations the reptile world has been having for forty years — finally on the record.
Announcement
A Citadel Rises: Announcing Citadel Culebra
For the first time, the people who actually built modern herpetoculture are teaching under one roof. Why Citadel Culebra changes what it means to learn this craft — and why nothing like it has existed before.
Read →Community
In Full Support of The Reptile Report
For years, The Reptile Report has been the front page of our community — spreading reptile positivity and lifting up good people doing good work. Citadel Culebra is a full supporter, and everyone should be following them.
Read →Ethics
The Weight of the Keeper: Responsibility and the Stories We Tell
Keeping a reptile is an act of total responsibility — for the animal, and for how the world sees this craft. On stewardship, the narratives we promote, and why the way we talk about these animals matters as much as how we keep them.
Read →Venomous
Hands Off: The Case Against Freehandling Venomous Snakes
Freehandling venomous snakes isn't bravery — it's a problem. Why the practice endangers the handler, the animal, the antivenom supply, and the entire keeping community's future, and what real venomous skill actually looks like.
Read →InstituteWelcome to the Culebra Chronicles
The official journal of Citadel Culebra — faculty spotlights, breakthroughs, field notes, and the conversations the reptile world has been having for forty years, finally on the record.
Read →FacultyThe People Who Built This Field
Why Citadel Culebra is taught by working legends — Kevin McCurley, Tom Crutchfield, George Van Horn, Ty Park, Steve Angeli, and more — and what that means for how you'll learn.
Read →ConservationEverything Ties Back to Conservation
Strip away the courses, the community, and the technology, and one purpose remains: keeping these animals alive — in our care, and in the wild.
Read →Conservation
Conservation Through Commerce: The Case for the Market
The argument that commercialization is conservation. How a healthy, regulated captive trade reduces wild collection, funds field work, builds genetic arks, and gives endangered species real economic value — and where the line must be drawn.
Read →Industry
A Fractured Kingdom: Reuniting the Reptile World and Reclaiming Its Golden Age
The reptile industry is brilliant and broken — scattered across platforms, factions, and feuds that drain the very people who built it. A look at how we got fragmented, what we lost, and how we get back to our glory days.
Read →ConservationThe Vanishing: Crocodiles of the Zambezi Delta and the Fight to Hold the Line
Species are dying at an alarming rate. A hard look at the global extinction crisis through one front line — the crocodile infrastructure crisis in the Zambezi River Delta — and the conservationists like Ivan Carter standing in the gap.
Read →Tribute
There Will Never Be Another: Steve Irwin and the Voice the Wild Lost
He made the world fall in love with the animals it feared. A tribute to Steve Irwin — what made him singular, what he gave conservation, and why there will never be another one.
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