Turtle Island Restoration Network (TIRN) held the Summer Sea Turtle Sustainability Grant Contest this summer to offer nonprofit organizations emergency funds to help protect endangered sea turtles in the United…
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Press Release: 21 June 2021 Tiger Shark Makes Historic Journey From the Galapagos Marine Reserve to Cocos Island National Park Discovery highlights need to create a marine “superhighway” connecting the two…
For Immediate Release, June 4, 2021 Contact: Mariano Castro, mcastro@seaturtles.org, +506 8841 7684 Costa Rica Urged to Protect Endangered Shark Species COSTA RICA—More than 90 global conservation…
Turtle Island Restoration Network (TIRN) signed a petition with over 400 environmental justice, conservation, public health, and social justice organizations to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). The petition called for…
Fish play an important role in mitigating the impacts of climate change! A new scientific study from Rutgers University reports the roughly 1.65 billion tons of carbon in annual marine…
We’ve reached a critical moment to take action for endangered sea turtles, whales, dolphins, sharks, and the very health of our oceans. But we can’t do it alone. From keeping…
The National Park Service recently released a long-awaited environmental review of its plan to “manage” the population of native, free-roaming tule elk of Point Reyes National Seashore. The plan will…
For Immediate Release, August 19, 2020 Contacts: Catherine Kilduff, Center for Biological Diversity, (202) 780-8862, CKilduff@BiologicalDiversity.org Annalisa Tuel, Turtle Island Restoration Network, (408) 621-8113, ATuel@SeaTurtles.org California Moves to Protect Declining…
Right now, the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) is considering revising measures that would remove interaction limits between the Hawai’i shallow-set pelagic longline fishery and endangered North Pacific loggerhead sea turtles….
The Okinawa dugong is a critically endangered relative of the manatee that holds a central place in the culture of Okinawa, Japan. But the last remaining population of these marine…