No prior experience is necessary, just a passion for working with others to help conserve amphibians and reptiles. Membership is voluntary and unpaid, but we strive to ensure the experience is both rewarding and impactful.

What's been happening at RiverRescues Animal Sanctuary in Edinburgh?

With a recent crackdown of wildlife trade being made in the UK, we investigate ethics behind the herptile trade.

What's been happening at RiverRescues Animal Sanctuary in Edinburgh?

Moss is given the praise it deserves as a building block for a herptile bioactive enclosure

All-in-one herptile basking bulbs are available from certain brands but is it the be-all-to-end-all of products?

The vulnerable African Softshell Turtle Trionyx triunguis has gone under a major study to uncover more of its eating habits within their environment.

Measures you take to provide a natural environment that mimics a herptile's wild setting is a highly debated prospect in the hobbyist world. How does each setup stack up against each other?

A study from October 2025 calls for radiotelemetry to be optimised for studying reptiles at a small to medium species range.

It can be a hard decision to choose a particular scaly or moist-skinned friend for a forever home. Luckily, there are simple ways to uncoil this complex thought-process and we will list them, in some kind of order, here for you!

The appeal to breed the most designer Ball Python offspring must sound like a lucrative and fascinating venture but can it be deemed unethical once we see the outcome.

What's been happening at RiverRescues Animal Sanctuary in Edinburgh?

A study looking at the difference of female and male mountain dragons Diploderma batangense uncovers the different morphological traits that affect biting force performance within the species.

15 years since the first Venom Day and it promises to a fun-filled packed day at the annual event.

RiverRescues Animal Sanctuary is a non-profit organisation established in 2012 and picks up and dropping off the waifs and strays of Edinburgh and Central Belt of Scotland.

What's been happening at RiverRescues Animal Sanctuary in Edinburgh?

An upcoming Herptile (Reptile and Amphibian) expedition is being organised to uncover new species in a remote location.

The time is now to conserve and protect endemic Scottish Herptile species as more and more disappear every year.

A new study has formed a data set for the critically endangered Manapany day gecko phelsuma inexpectata. This has never been done before as no precedent readings have ever been made in such a huge number.

Widely known Herpetologist Roger A. Repp has sadly passed away, leaving a legacy of important herptile research in the Arizona desert area.