Photo credit: Instigator/Shanna Stawicki Photography Two recent studies confirm that sea turtles not only hear underwater sound, but that human-generated noise can significantly disrupt their behavior—interfering with feeding, navigation, and…
For Immediate Release, February 5, 2026 Contact: Todd Steiner, Founder & Special Projects, TSteiner@seaturtles.org Laurel Irvine, Communications Manager, LIrvine@seaturtles.org Turtle Island Restoration Network Invites Divers and Ocean Enthusiasts to Join…
The Fight to Protect the Environment and Our Democracy Is One and the Same Photo credit: Vincent Alban of the The New York Times. Demonstrators march to protest the…
We are extremely excited to share that we will be headed back to Cocos Island National Park and World Heritage Site this coming June 2026, and you have the opportunity to…
When funding shortfalls and staffing cuts caused by the Trump administration threatened to derail a vital habitat restoration project in Muir Woods National Monument earlier this year, SPAWN stepped in…
The United States is the world’s largest importer of seafood, bringing in more than $25 billion worth of products each year from over 130 countries. Yet for decades, the U.S. has failed to…
For decades, our work to save the critically endangered leatherback sea turtle has taken us across the world – from the beaches of California to the remote shores of Papua New…
Photo by NOAA. Leatherbacks swim through international waters on their long migrations, where they are threatened by industrial fishing activities. Turtle Island Restoration Network has been working for decades to…
California’s coastal waters may soon be free of two of the most destructive fishing methods ever deployed… set gillnets and drift gillnets, thanks to new laws that will finally phase…
