In June, Turtle Island Restoration Network Founder and Executive Director Todd Steiner was accepted to an elite group of explorers and scientists that have been involved in many of the…
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For Immediate Release June 6, 2019 Press Contacts: Catherine Kilduff, Center for Biological Diversity, (530) 304-7258, CKilduff@BiologicalDiversity.org Todd Steiner, Turtle Island Restoration Network, (415) 488-8752, TSteiner@SeaTurtles.org Lawsuit Challenges Trump Permits…
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…
In April 2019, a crew of volunteer divers, marine biologists, scientists, and dive masters joined Turtle Island Restoration Network (TIRN) on one of the organization’s yearly research expeditions to Cocos Island National…
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…
Legislation would phase out last remaining drift gillnet fishery in the United States WASHINGTON—Congress reintroduced a pair of bipartisan bills recently that would phase out the use of harmful large…
Press Contact: Todd Steiner, Executive Director. tsteiner@seaturtles.org. (415) 488-7652 WASHINGTON—Senators Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) and Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) reintroduced a bipartisan bill this week that will phase out the use…
HONOLULU—The National Marine Fisheries Service has immediately closed the Hawai’i-based shallow-set longline fishery for the rest of 2019 to protect endangered loggerhead sea turtles. It is the second year in…
Recent studies have demonstrated that sharks and turtles use the swimway to migrate between the marine reserves, putting them at grave risk to industrial fishing. New research demonstrates the importance...
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OLEMA—Turtle Island Restoration Network (TIRN) has awarded a scholarship to a graduate student who will help TIRN study, tag, and track sharks and sea turtles with leading environmentalists during their…
