To prevent many species of sea turtles from going extinct in our lifetime, sea turtles need to be protected throughout their lifecycles.

Since our earliest days, Turtle Island Restoration Network has worked with community volunteers and partner organizations to protect nesting females, eggs and baby sea turtles on beaches in places like Nicaragua, Texas, Costa Rica, Australia and Papua New Guinea.

Through our efforts, we’ve created a National Wildlife Refuge in Nicaragua to protect the most important olive ridley sea turtle nesting beach, and created six community-based beach nesting projects in Costa Rica. Today, we’ve recruited and coordinated thousands of volunteers to patrol more than 16,000 miles of beach on the Upper Texas Coast for nesting Kemp’s ridley sea turtles.

Help us work to protect critical sea turtle nesting beaches and baby hatchlings by symbolically adopting a nest of sea turtle hatchlings for yourself or a loved one.

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Updates

Daily Sea Turtle Nest Counts on the Texas Coast

| 2026, Gulf of Mexico, Nest Counts, Protect Nesting Beaches, Save the Leatherback, Sea Turtles, Texas, Turtles | No Comments
Daily nesting reports from the Texas coast and Padre Island National Seashore. Three endangered sea turtle species - the critically endangered Kemp's ridley and threatened loggerhead and green - return…

Action Alert: Urge Your Legislators to Support the Protect Gulf Life Act (H.R. 8919, “Beyer Bill”)

| 2026, Comment, Conservation, Current Action, Endangered/Threatened Species, Gulf Education & Outreach, Gulf of Mexico, Human-Wildlife Conflicts, Lawsuits, Marine Mammals & Seabirds, Sea Turtles | No Comments
Header photo credit: NOAA.

Rising Pacific Ocean Temperatures Trigger Legal Requirement to Protect Loggerhead Sea Turtles from Driftnets

| 2026, California, Conservation, Driftnets, Endangered/Threatened Species, Entanglement, Human-Wildlife Conflicts, Lawsuits, Longlines, News, Sea Turtle, Sea Turtles | No Comments
Rising Pacific Ocean temperatures are triggering a federal legal requirement, triggered by litigation by Turtle Island (TIRN) and Center for Biological Diversity (CBD) to close a large stretch of Southern…