HONOLULU—The National Marine Fisheries Service has immediately closed the Hawai’i-based shallow-set longline fishery for the rest of 2019 to protect endangered loggerhead sea turtles. It is the second year in…
OLEMA—Turtle Island Restoration Network (TIRN) has awarded a scholarship to a graduate student who will help TIRN study, tag, and track sharks and sea turtles with leading environmentalists during their…
The confirmation hearing for Acting Interior Secretary David Bernhardt is fast-approaching, and we cannot let a long-time fossil fuel lobbyist continue to mismanage our nation’s precious natural resources and public…
GALVESTON—An ocean conservation group in Galveston is joining a worldwide movement to protect the environment from an increasingly urgent threat: single-use plastic straws. Turtle Island Restoration Network (TIRN) launched ‘The…
HONOLULU—Hawaii legislators voted to pass a pair of bills on Wednesday that would provide landmark protections for sharks and rays in Hawaii waters, becoming the first of its kind in…
This month, Turtle Island Restoration Network is Stream2Sea’s featured nonprofit, which means they will donate an additional percent of purchase proceeds to the organization. When someone uses code SEATURTLE at…
The Hawaii Senate has proposed a landmark bill to make capturing, entangling, abusing or killing any shark or ray in Hawaiian waters illegal. Nearly 100 million sharks are killed globally…
Turtle Island Restoration Network (TIRN) has announced new dates for their yearly live-aboard dive expeditions to Cocos Island National Park, Costa Rica. During early August 2020 and late November 2020,…
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