For Immediate Release, March 29, 2021 Contact: Joanie Steinhaus, Gulf Program Director, joanie@seaturtles.org, 512-417-7741 Turtles About Town to Install 50th Kemp’s Ridley Statue on Galveston Island GALVESTON, Texas — Galveston Island will give a warm welcome to another community member this week as Turtle Island Restoration Network and Clay...
This month, history was made as Deb Haaland was confirmed as the first Native American Secretary of the Interior. As the newly appointed as Secretary of the Interior, Haaland will step into the role of becoming a key member of future efforts to combat climate...
Turtle Island Restoration Network (TIRN) recently joined more than 170 groups in urging Congress to significantly increase the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s budget for endangered species conservation from $291.7 million to $592.1 million. While the Endangered Species Act (ESA) is a strong piece of...
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 fish poop makes up about 16 percent of the total carbon that sinks and is stored...
This article, written by César Peñaherrera and Mariano Castro Jiménez, was originally published in La Nación on March 18, 2021. Peñaherrera is the Science Coordinator at MigraMar and scientific advisor for Turtle Island Restoration Network. Jiménez a lawyer and the Latin America Policy & Legal...
The Okinawa dugong is a critically endangered relative of the manatee that needs your help. The United States is expanding a Marine Corps base in the Japanese island’s shallow coastal waters. Building the base will involve filling in and paving over hundreds of acres of rich...
For Immediate Release, March 18, 2021 Contact: Joanie Steinhaus, Turtle Island Restoration Network, joanie@seaturtles.org, 512-417-7741 Jaclyn Lopez, Center for Biological Diversity, jlopez@biologicaldiversity.org, 727-490-9190Kerry Skiff, Defenders of Wildlife, kskiff@defenders.org, 202-772-0253 Congress Urged to Overturn Trump Administration Rule That Prioritizes Oil and Gas Over Protecting Gulf of Mexico Corals WASHINGTON—Turtle Island Restoration...
For Immediate Release, March 16, 2021 Contacts: Preston Brown, preston@seaturtles.org, 303-877-0880Todd Steiner, tsteiner@seaturtles.org, 415-488-7652Audrey Fusco, audrey@seaturtles.org, 415-845-4791 New Pedestrian Bridge Connects Community to Trails on Former Golf Course Ribbon-cutting ceremony to be held on Wednesday, March 17 at 12:30pm PST SAN GERONIMO — A 100-foot pedestrian bridge that will connect...
Turtle Island Restoration Network (TIRN) recently expressed its support to help prevent monarch butterflies from extinction. Joining with over 80 different groups, we called on Congress to provide $100 million annually for the conservation of monarch butterflies. With recent and rapid declines in their populations,...
Turtle Island Restoration Network (TIRN) recently signed a letter to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, asking the Service to restore critical bird protections that would be eliminated by a proposed regulation to the Migratory Bird Treaty Act (MBTA). TIRN believes the United States, through the...
