The beloved Monarch butterfly (Danaus plexippus) is experiencing a rapid population decline. In California alone, there were nearly 4.5 million Monarchs just 30 years ago. During the most recent Monarch…
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Sixty years ago, the annual wild Central California Coast Coho salmon population in Marin County’s Lagunitas Creek Watershed was nearly 6,000. This year, surveyors recorded around 750 adults returning to…
If you’ve ever wanted to study sharks, now is your chance. On April 27, Turtle Island Restoration Network will present a seminar on how scuba divers can participate in shark…
Turtle Island Restoration Network just returned from our April 2019 Cocos Island Dive Expedition. This is part one of a series highlighting the trip, as reported by Executive Director and...
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: April 12, 2019 Press Contact: Preston Brown Watershed Conservation Director preston@seaturtles.org (303) 877-0880 OLEMA — This Earth Day, the Bay Area community will have the opportunity to…
LAGUNITAS CREEK–Last winter, SPAWN began regularly releasing footage from our motion- and temperature-activated cameras as part of a fun weekend celebration. Now, as trail cameras reveal data spanning multiple seasons,…
The Salmon Protection and Watershed Network, or SPAWN, is Cascade Canyon School’s Ocean Guardian Grant partner, and we have had a great time working with them to help fulfill their…
Legislation would phase out last remaining drift gillnet fishery in the United States WASHINGTON—Congress reintroduced a pair of bipartisan bills recently that would phase out the use of harmful large…
We have the chance to end the last remaining and highly destructive drift gillnet fishery in the United States once and for all, but we need your help! With your…