Environmental groups yesterday filed suit over the federal government’s
failure to seasonally close a California fishery in order to protected
endangered loggerhead sea turtles.
YES, I mean the Official Sea Turtle of the State of Texas! (The turtle the children at Oppe Elementary worked so hard to get it recognized as the state turtle.) Their…
By Paul Hampton Small stretches of beach on Horn and Petit Bois islands off the Mississippi Coast are included in the 685 miles of beaches from Mississippi to North Carolina…
Guest blog by Judith Scherff Kansas is a coastal state. Even though one is unable to drive to a beach within its borders, Kansas has a huge ocean impact because…
A lawsuit filed by Turtle Island Restoration Network and Center for Biological Diversity today seeks to protect endangered sea turtles off the coast of Southern California by requiring the National Marine Fisheries Service to implement the Pacific Loggerhead Conservation Area, a fishery closure during June, July and August of predicted El Niño years.
After more than five years of delay, threatened loggerhead sea turtles today won federal protection of critical habitat — 685 miles of beaches from Mississippi to North Carolina and more than 300,000 square miles of ocean — on the Atlantic and Gulf coasts. Following a 2013 lawsuit by Turtle Island Restoration Network and conservation groups, the federal government designated important nesting beaches and ocean waters off several states as protected areas essential for loggerhead recovery in the largest designation of “critical habitat” ever.
Sanjay, a 117-pound male, Pacific green sea turtle made history when he swam from the protected water of Cocos Island Marine National Park in Costa Rica and crossed into the Galapagos Marine Reserve in Ecuador.
Turtle Island Restoration Network is dedicated to protecting and restoring endangered sea turtles and marine biodiversity worldwide. We accomplish our mission through grassroots and policy-maker education, consumer empowerment, strategic litigation and…
Each year, nearly half of the more than 5 billion pounds of seafood consumed by Americans — including tuna, swordfish, shrimp, cod and other fish — comes from foreign fisheries that have not been shown as meeting U.S. whale and dolphin protection standards. The United States is required to insist on such proof before foreign seafood may lawfully be imported into the United States. A lawsuit filed today by Turtle Island Restoration Network and conservation groups seeks to protect marine mammals by requiring the government to ensure that all imported, wild-caught fish meet U.S. standards.