Chance of a Lifetime to Participate on a Cocos Island Shark Tagging Research Expedition! Join Todd Steiner, Executive Director of Turtle Island and our Costa Rican colleague Randall Arauz as…
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE February 12, 2024 Contact: Todd Steiner, Turtle Island Restoration Network, 415-488-7652, tsteiner@tirn.net Alejandro Olivera, (202) 849-8403, aolivera@biologicaldiversity.org Galapagos Islands Needs World Heritage ‘In Danger’ Status, Groups Say...
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by Todd Steiner Cocos Expeditions with Turtle Island Are Back! We are excited to announce that Turtle Island will resume our scuba research expeditions at Cocos in 2023! Please join…
This December 10-20, 2022, a special expedition to Cocos Island National Park and two neighboring Seamounts will take place. A collaboration of the Costa Rican organization CREMA, Turtle Island Restoration…
California’s Leatherback Conservation Day became law in 2012, thanks to the work of then Turtle Island Restoration Network (TIRN) lead campaigner Teri Shore, who first proposed it and found state…
For Immediate Release: January 14, 2022 Contacts: Todd M. Steiner, (415) 488-7652, tsteiner@tirn.net Ecuador – Ecuador will have a new marine reserve to increase the protection of marine endangered species…
For Immediate Release, December 17, 2021 Contact: Todd Steiner, Executive Director, +1 415-488-7652, tsteiner@tirn.net The expansion comprises a critical part of the migration route used by endangered marine species known…
For Immediate Release, November 1, 2021 Contact: Todd Steiner, Executive Director, +1 415-488-7652, tsteiner@tirn.net Ecuador Announces Creation of New Marine Reserve in Galapagos New Protected Area Creates Safe Migration Route…
Leer en español. For Immediate Release, September 10, 2021 Contact: Mariano Castro, Turtle Island Restoration Network, mcastro@seaturtles.org ‘New York Times’ Ad Urges Costa Rica and Ecuador Presidents to Protect Endangered…
On this year’s World Ocean Day, President Laurentino Cortizo of Panama signed an executive decree tripling the size of the Cordillera de Coiba marine protected area (MPA). As a result,…