Pacific fishery managers shut down the California salmon fishery due to a crisis of crashing fish stocks. This was a critical and courageous move. But today they OK’d the opening…
PACIFIC FISHERY COUNCIL OKS NEW FISHING PERMIT IN WEST COAST SEA TURTLE PROTECTION AREA New longline fishery would harm endangered sea turtles as well as whales and seabirds West Coast…
Last March 10, a Costa Rican Court rejected an appeal by the Costa Rican Fisheries Institute INCOPESCA, calling for the absolute annulment of its shark fisheries report FOE-PGA-86-2006. In the…
Adopt-A-Nest program supports endangered sea turtle conservation “Journey of the Leatherback” tells story of disappearing Pacific turtle “A Struggle to Live – the Kemp’s Ridley” is for teaching and learning…
“A Struggle to Live — The Kemp’s Ridley Sea Turtle” is a new DVD offered at cost of mailing to teachers and other groups interested in educating students and the…
Our Central American campaigner Randall Arauz is in town this week from Costa Rica sharing his incredible work to save endangered sea turtles and sharks. On Monday night at the…
A public service announcement (PSA) is making history on the Texas Gulf Coast. For the very first time, the public is being asked to watch for nesting sea turtles on…
Today, GotMercury.Org released a report revealing continued failure by restaurants and supermarkets to post adequate consumer advisories about potentially unsafe levels of mercury in commercial seafood. Mercury in Seafood –…
SAN FRANCISCO- The Turtle Island Restoration Network and the Center for Biological Diversity formally petitioned the U.S. government today to enforce the Marine Mammal Protection Act (MMPA) and impose a ban on imported swordfish until exporting countries provide proof that their fishing practices are at least as protective of marine mammals as those used by U.S. commercial fishers. View the petition below.
Welcome to the Sea Turtle Restoration Project blog at www.seaturtles.org. After 18+ years at the forefront of the environmental movement with our innovative campaigns to protect sea turtles, we are…