This summer I attended the United Nations Ocean Conference, co-hosted by France and Costa Rica, with a clear purpose: to urge Costa Rican President Rodrigo Chaves Robles to finalize protection…
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On April 17th, President Trump issued an Executive Order titled “Restoring American Seafood Competitiveness,” in an effort to amp up our nation's seafood production, which threatens decades of bipartisan progress...
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Photo by Kaylam-Pratt on a TIRN Cocos Island Expedition trip. For Immediate Release, July 23, 2025 Contact: Todd Steiner, Founder & Special Projects, TSteiner@seaturtles.org This Shark Week, Turtle Island Restoration Network…
The United Nations Ocean Conference was co-sponsored by Costa Rica and France took place in Nice in 9-13 April 2025 and TIRN was there to turn up the pressure on…
For Immediate Release: December 28, 2023 Contact: Todd Steiner, (415) 488-7652, tsteiner@tirn.net Fishery’s Expansion Threatens Endangered Leatherback Habitat Off California SAN FRANCISCO— The Center for Biological Diversity and Turtle Island…
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…
U.S. Urged to End Bluefin Tuna Overfishing in Gulf As the U.S. delegation to the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas (ICCAT) begins to negotiate the conservation and…
For Immediate Release, August 18, 2020 Contact: Annalisa Tuel, Turtle Island Restoration Network, (408) 621-8113, atuel@seaturtles.org Catherine Kilduff, Center for Biological Diversity, (202) 780-8862, CKilduff@BiologicalDiversity.org California to Hold Hearing…
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 29, 2020 Contacts Annalisa Batanides Tuel, Turtle Island Restoration Network, (408) 621-8113 Andrea Treece, Earthjustice, (415) 217-2089 Raleigh Hoke, Healthy Gulf, (573) 795-1916 Groups Sue to…
As we near the end of National Slavery and Human Trafficking Prevention month, I wanted to remind our dedicated supporters like you that despite the fact that we’re living in…