FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE, November 20, 2019 Contacts: Joanie Steinhaus, 512-417-7741, joanie@seaturtles.org Jeff Seinsheimer, 409-771-9522, chair@glaveston.surfrider.org Environmental Groups Renew Push for Single-Use Plastic Bag Ban in Galveston GALVESTON—Turtle Island Restoration Network…
Contact: Annalisa Tuel, (408) 621-8113, atuel@seaturtles.org FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Tuesday Rally Planned to Stop Deadly Longline Fishery off California coast COSTA MESA, Calif. – Activists will stand with Turtle Island…
Turtle Island Restoration Network is thrilled to announce we are a top finalist for Best Non-Profit Organization in Galveston.com’s 2019 Best of the Island Awards! All autumn long, thousands of…
Turtle Island Restoration Network (TIRN) submitted a letter and comments on behalf of almost 3,000 environmental activists to the Pacific Fisheries Management Council this week to comment on its proposal…
Last weekend, Turtle Island Restoration Network joined representatives from the EPA, NOAA’s Marine Debris program, local and state government, as well as several universities, NGOs, and students at the second annual…
In early October, Turtle Island Restoration Network coordinated the rescue of a critically endangered Kemp’s ridley sea turtle that was found hooked and entangled in a mixture of fishing line,…
Critically endangered leatherback sea turtles are drowned and killed by commercial fisheries, such as longlines and driftnets, as incidental bycatch. Entangled in fishing line or net, leatherbacks struggle to swim…
Pacific Leatherback Conservation Day falls on October 15 and this year, environmental activists are taking to social media to raise awareness of the rapidly declining species. Less than 50 years…
If you live in the Gulf or visited our beaches over the past decade, you most likely have had an experience with seaweed. Even though it sometimes disrupts our surfing,…
Congress introduced critical legislation this month to repeal new regulations that dramatically weaken the Endangered Species Act, or ESA. Introduced by House Natural Resources Chairman Raul Grijalva (AZ) and Senator…
