For Immediate Release, July 31, 2020 Contacts Todd Steiner, SPAWN, 415-488-7652, tsteiner@seaturtles.org Deborah Sivas, Stanford Law, 650-269-2489, dsivas@standford.edu Preston Brown, SPAWN, 303-877-0880, preston@seaturtles.org Marin County Court Rejects Attempt to Suspend…
For Immediate Release, July 24, 2020 Contact: Annalisa Batanides Tuel, Turtle Island Restoration Network, atuel@seaturtles.org Senate Passes Bill to Protect Sea Turtles, Whales, Dolphins from Drift Gillnets Bans large mesh…
SPAWN’s Native Plant Nursery is currently propagating more than 100 different species of plants including coastal redwoods, Oregon ash, and countless other trees, grasses and flowers native to Marin County,…
For too long, “fish” have been viewed as separate from “wildlife” by government conservation agencies and the general public; and it needs to change. The reasons for this disconnect are…
After years of unnecessary deaths, California has finally proposed rules for the state’s commercial Dungeness crab fishery that would lessen the entanglement risk for whales and sea turtles. In a…
We’re nearing the end of Plastic Free July — a global movement to encourage individuals to reduce plastic waste and stop the habit of using single-use plastics — but that…
Sasol, the South African oil and gas giant, has abandoned a controversial gas-drilling venture on the doorstep of the Bazaruto tropical island paradise in Mozambique after a massive public backlash…
For Immediate Release, July 16, 2020 Contacts: Joanie Steinhaus, 512-417-7741, joanie@seaturtles.org Judith Enck, 518-605-1770, JudithEnck@Bennington.edu Jennie Romer, 510-685-1575, jromer@surfrider.org UberEats, GrubHub, Delivery.com, Doordash, Seamless, PostMates & Caviar Asked to “Hold…
The Salmon Protection and Watershed Network (SPAWN) recently completed our Year 1 Post-Construction Monitoring Report for the Lagunitas Floodplain Restoration Phase I. The Lagunitas Creek Floodplain and Riparian Restoration Project…
Turtle Island Restoration Network is saddened to learn that one of our former habitat restoration interns, Michal Michiels, recently passed away in a work-related accident on June 12, 2020. Michal…
