
We are delighted to welcome Jeremy Rich to our native plant nursery team for the summer! Jeremy brings with him a wealth of knowledge about California plants as well as…
We are delighted to welcome Jeremy Rich to our native plant nursery team for the summer! Jeremy brings with him a wealth of knowledge about California plants as well as…
The rolling 110-acre San Geronimo Golf Course in rural West Marin is in many ways the last hope for California’s endangered coastal coho salmon. It is one of the last large uninterrupted parcels of creekside habitat where a lot of potential exists to restore and improve critical habitat for the benefit of our native coho salmon.
“This wasteful driftnet fishery is always in crisis and the emergency never stops for whales, dolphins, and fish that get caught and die by the hundreds,” said Turtle Island Restoration Network’s Teri Shore. “It’s time to ban driftnets instead of constant regulatory triage.”
Today the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) announced emergency actions designed to protect endangered sperm whales from being caught in the California swordfish/thresher shark drift gillnet fishery. The emergency rule, prompted by advocacy by conservation groups, goes into effect tomorrow. The overdue regulations came 20 days after the drift gillnet fishing season opened in offshore waters beyond 75 nautical miles.
Thank you for taking action to save protected hawksbill and green sea turtles that swim in the South China Sea! Please click here to make a donation today to help…
Watch this video about our native steelhead and salmon, which are part of a magnificent natural heritage in the central coast of California.
After countless hours in the native plant nursery, William and his team learned more about the methods and the science behind redwood germination and propagation and have grown nearly 400 new individual redwoods this year alone.
Where do sharks go? This basic question is one that is rarely considered when creating protected ocean or marine reserves, yet it is one of the most critical ones to conservationists working to protect sharks in the Eastern Tropical Pacific.
Lagunitas Coho Salmon are federally listed as Endangered. Only around 5,000 adults remain today from a population that formerly produced over 100,000 spawning fish.
Turtle Island’s Program Director Teri Shore and Associate Campaign Director Joanie Steinhaus hit the road this spring en route to the Annual Symposium on Sea Turtle Biology and Conservation hosted…