Pacific leatherbacks are gathering off the coast to feed on California’s super abundance of jellyfish. Leatherbacks have been sighted swimming in the shipping lanes and the ‘precautionary area’ off San…
STRP’s Todd Steiner Joined Protests and Today Carries on the Fight A special screening and reception of the new Hollywood film Battle in Seattle will be held on Friday, September…
A few weeks ago, it looked as though the funding for the 2009 beach patrols on the upper Texas coast would be short by $50,000. This deficit would eliminate many…
Ignores calls to protect leatherback beach to favor developments BOSQUES NUESTROS – Press Release President Oscar Arias passed the Peace with Nature initiative and, facing pressure from investors, established an…
Carole Allen, Gulf Office Director of the Sea Turtle Restoration Project asked the Texas Parks andWildlife Commission at its August 20 meeting in Houston to provide more protection and funding…
State Legislators take action to reduce preventable exposure to methylmercury in seafood Assembly Joint Resolution 57 (AJR57) introduced in April by Assemblyman Jared Huffman (D-San Rafael), and co-authored by Assemblymember’s…
The Salmon Protection and Watershed Network (SPAWN), with funding from the Marin Community Foundation, has launched its Stormwater Catchment and Water Conservation Initiative for Marin County residences and businesses. The…
ABAG Priority conservation areas are areas of regional significance that have broad community support and an urgent need for protection. These areas provide important agricultural, natural resource, historical, scenic, cultural, recreational, and/or ecological values and ecosystem functions. Knowing the region’s conservation priorities for targeting acquisition efforts will promote collaboration and investment in these areas that are critical to the region’s quality of life and ecological diversity.
Recent scientific evidence shows climate change is changing the fundamental biology of Pacific leatherback turtles–not tomorrow, but today–and making these 100-million-year-old sea turtles more vulnerable to longline and drift gillnet…
Sea turtle groups, nesting beach volunteers, and researchers support national effort to stop weak rules proposed by federal fishery agency Today sea turtle conservationists from across the country joined other…