Last month, a team of Turtle Island Restoration Network staff made the trek to Sacramento, California to lobby on behalf of oceans everywhere.
On January 29, 2018, the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) designated the oceanic whitetip shark as threatened under the Endangered Species Act.
Sea turtle conservationists are calling the Trump Administration’s recently announced proposal to open federal waters to oil and gas drilling a severe blow to decades-long efforts to protect populations of endangered and threatened sea turtles.
2017 has been a year of ups and downs for boots-on-the-ground and online activists. We’re not going to kid ourselves by thinking 2018 will be easy. There are challenges ahead…
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Turtle Island Restoration Network, a leading ocean conservation organization, condemns this reversal of public lands protections.
Turtle Island Restoration Network recently launched a swordfish boycott to protect ocean wildlife from deadly commercial fishing methods. Swordfish has become a popular food offered in restaurants and markets, and ocean wildlife is dying as a consequence.
WASHINGTON— The Trump administration proposed a rule today to federalize regulation of drift gillnets used to catch swordfish on the West Coast. The rule would end California’s right to…
The “critically endangered” Pacific leatherback sea turtle (Dermochelys coriacea) has experienced a catastrophic decline over the past two decades, and is on the verge of extinction due in part to industrial fishing methods off the coast of California and in Hawai’i.
The fight to end the use of drift gillnets is going national. Turtle Island Restoration Network recently spoke in Washington D.C. at a congressional briefing, hosted by Congressman Jared Huffman’s office….