Peter Charles Howard Pritchard[1] (June 26, 1943 – February 25, 2020) was a leading turtle zoologist.

In 1997,[2] he founded a turtle conservation organization called the Chelonian Research Institute in Oviedo, Florida.

Pritchard also travelled to Guyana for his career, the South American country that is home to four of the world's seven known sea turtle species: the leatherback, green, hawksbill and the olive ridley.

Along the way, Pritchard's own scholarship has benefited from centuries' worth of tribal turtle knowledge.

He has also done extensive study and written books about alligator snapping turtles and Galapagos tortoises.