The confirmation hearing for Acting Interior Secretary David Bernhardt is fast-approaching, and we cannot let a long-time fossil fuel lobbyist continue to mismanage our nation’s precious natural resources and public…
GALVESTON—An ocean conservation group in Galveston is joining a worldwide movement to protect the environment from an increasingly urgent threat: single-use plastic straws. Turtle Island Restoration Network (TIRN) launched ‘The…
Current placement of the coastal barrier system would negatively impact 15 threatened and endangered species Turtle Island Restoration Network (TIRN) has sent a letter to the United States Army Corps…
Turtle Island Restoration Network is among several groups that support the position that the Army Corps’ coastal spine comment plan is unacceptable. In the below editorial, recently published in The…
Current research estimates that over 100 million tons of plastic is found in the ocean. No matter if it is a plastic bag or the piece of a toy, plastic…
With recent drops in weather and water temperature, many communities on our coasts are experiencing hundreds of sea turtles, many of them dead, washing ashore. This phenomenon, known as cold…
Todd Steiner, founder and executive director of Turtle Island Restoration Network, has been named Honoree of the Eleanor Fletcher Award at the Loggerhead Marinelife Center’s Go Blue Awards in Florida.
San Francisco Bay Area (September 27, 2018) – Today, California Governor Jerry Brown signed a bill (SB 1017) that will phase out the use of large-scale driftnets, also known as ‘walls…
After a successful nesting season, we had the opportunity to travel to Rancho Nuevo, Mexico; the main nesting site for the critically endangered Kemp’s Ridley sea turtle.
Daily nesting reports direct from the Texas Coast and Padre Island National Seashore! Three endangered sea turtle species – the critically endangered Kemp’s ridley, loggerhead and green – return to…
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