FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: July 2, 2019 Press Contact: Joanie Steinhaus, Turtle Island Restoration Network, joanie@seaturtles .org, (512) 417-7741 GALVESTON — This Friday, the Galveston Island community will have the opportunity…
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE May 30, 2019 Press Contacts: Todd Steiner, Turtle Island Restoration Network, (415) 488-7652 Paul Gunter, Beyond Nuclear, (301) 523-0201 Deborah Sivas, Stanford Environmental Law Clinic, (650) 723-0325…
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE May 24, 2019 Press Contact: Joanie Steinhaus Gulf Program Director joanie@seaturtles.org (512) 417-7741 GALVESTON—The number of sea turtle strandings along the Texas coastline reached the highest number…
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…
‘Ike Dike’ Proposal Contains Incorrect Data About Resident Sea Turtles Current placement of the coastal barrier system would negatively impact 15 threatened and endangered species Turtle Island Restoration Network (TIRN)…
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.
