History will be made on Monday evening, September 29, when the Galveston Chamber of Commerce staff cut a ribbon at the only office on the Upper Texas Coast dedicated to the conservation of sea turtles in the Gulf of Mexico.
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Intern Jeremey A. Rich’s habitat development program is well underway at Turtle Island’s Headquarters in Olema, Calif. The program provides hidden-in-plain-sight niche habitats for local riparian wildlife on our native…
Volunteers were busy at Turtle Island headquarters in west Marin County making signs and costumes for NorCal’s version of the People’s Climate March, which will descend on Oakland’s Merritt Lake…
Contact: Todd Steiner, Executive Director, Turtle Island Restoration Network (415) 488-7652; TSteiner@SeaTurtles.Org Corte Madera, Calif. (September 15, 2014) – Turtle Island Restoration Network’s Salmon Protection And Watershed Network (SPAWN) program received the…
Sara Gendel, a graduate student at Bard College in New York, joined the Turtle Island Restoration Network team this July as our newest conservation intern.
Shark scientists gathered last week at a conference organized by the Colombian Presidential Agency for International Cooperation to learn how to effectively track the migration patterns and behavior of threatened sharks species with specialized underwater acoustic tags,* as well as strengthen the Latin-American Migramar network of scientists studying marine migratory patterns in the Eastern Pacific.
During the month of August, Turtle Island Restoration Network hosted the Summer Salmon Institute – a program designed for elementary school teachers to share ideas and collaboratively plan how to best engage students with current environmental issues. Here are a few updates on teachers work in the field post Summer Salmon Institute 2014.
Did you know that on Friday the California State Legislature passed a bill banning the use of plastic bags at grocery stores, pharmacies, liquor stores & other businesses?
Thanks to Turtle Island Restoration Network’s hard work, and funding provided by the NOAA BWET grant, this years Summer Salmon Institute was a huge success. Teachers spent the week learning about hands on watershed education and it’s links to the newly adopted Next Generation Science Standards.