Turtle Island Restoration Network

Turtle Island Restoration Network Turtle Island Restoration Network is a leading advocate for the world’s oceans and marine wildlife. Join us.
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Turtle Island is a leading advocate for the world’s oceans and marine wildlife. Our work is based on science, fueled by people who care, and effective at catalyzing long-lasting positive change that protects the likes of green sea turtles, whale sharks and steelhead trout. By working with people and communities we preserve and restore critical habitats like the redwood forested creek banks of Cali

fornia to the full-of-marine-life waters of the Galapagos Islands. We accomplish our mission through grassroots empowerment, consumer action, strategic litigation, hands-on restoration, environmental education, and by promoting sustainable local, national and international marine policies.

Help Save Newts: Call for Volunteers! The Chileno Valley Newt Brigade is gearing up to rescue the thousands of newts, fr...
09/01/2026

Help Save Newts: Call for Volunteers! The Chileno Valley Newt Brigade is gearing up to rescue the thousands of newts, frogs and other creatures as they migrate across a dangerous road.

Can you help? The training will be held on Sept. 26th, 10 a.m. at Chileno Valley Ranch, 5105 Chileno Valley Road in Petaluma.

What: Wearing a reflective vest, you’ll use a flashlight and bucket to carry animals across the road. You’ll also keep count using iNaturalist, collecting data that reveals population trends.

When: You'll join a team that goes out once a week between mid-October and mid-March.

Where: Chileno Valley Road next to Laguna Lake, west of Petaluma.

www.chilenovalleynewtbrigade.org and fill out the volunteer form. Sally Gale will respond promptly 💚

The New England Aquarium’s Anderson Cabot Center for Ocean Life scientists spotted numerous marine species during an Aug...
08/28/2026

The New England Aquarium’s Anderson Cabot Center for Ocean Life scientists spotted numerous marine species during an August aerial survey of the Northeast Canyons and Seamounts Marine National Monument! ️

Researchers identified over 2,000 animals and 15 different species, including 11 whale sharks, seven manta rays, 16 fin whales, and a blue whale!

📷: New England Aquarium

A five-mile-long oil sheen in Cook Inlet is a troubling reminder of what’s at stake as offshore drilling expands and env...
08/28/2026

A five-mile-long oil sheen in Cook Inlet is a troubling reminder of what’s at stake as offshore drilling expands and environmental safeguards are dismantled.

A couple days ago, a pilot spotted an oil sheen in Cook Inlet, Alaska. Although the source remains unknown, it was observed near Hilcorp’s long-idle Spark platform (an abandoned well that has not produced oil or gas for decades). Multiple agencies are now responding as the investigation continues.

Cook Inlet is home to endangered beluga whales, sea otters, sea lions, orcas, humpback whales, fish and countless seabirds - all while supporting vital fisheries and tourism. Yet the Trump administration is pushing to expand offshore drilling even as federal oversight and spill-response capacity are weakened.

The first of six mandated new Cook Inlet lease sales, held in March, attracted zero bids and raised $0! Instead of expanding drilling, we should be holding oil companies accountable for aging and abandoned infrastructure and requiring it to be fully decommissioned...

Cook Inlet is too important to gamble with. We must protect its wildlife, waters, and the communities that depend on them.

A Cook Inlet beluga calf (gray color) swimming with three larger beluga whales (white), photo credit: Paul Wade via NOAA Fisheries.

The ocean is sending us a warning... new data shows global ocean surface temperatures have reached a record 21.1°C (70°F...
08/25/2026

The ocean is sending us a warning... new data shows global ocean surface temperatures have reached a record 21.1°C (70°F) — hotter than ever recorded 🥵

This isn’t just a number, the ocean absorbs more than 90% of the excess heat trapped by greenhouse gas emissions, making it one of our planet’s most important climate regulators.

🔥 Warmer oceans can mean 🔥
🔵 Stronger storms and more extreme weather
🔵 Rising sea levels and increased coastal flooding
🔵 More frequent and intense marine heatwaves
🔵 Stress and damage to marine ecosystems, including coral reefs

While the current El Niño is adding heat to the system, the science community emphasizes that it’s happening on top of decades of human-caused climate warming. The ocean is absorbing the heat of a changing climate. What happens next depends on what we do about it.

Read more on the BBC here: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c62m4gpnp78o

Gulf coast community, Rob the Ridley has an invitation for you! Come join Rob and the TIRN crew for the 5th annual The A...
08/24/2026

Gulf coast community, Rob the Ridley has an invitation for you!

Come join Rob and the TIRN crew for the 5th annual The Art of Saving Sea Turtles event - an afternoon celebrating sea turtles, conservation, art, and the amazing community helping protect our Texas coast.

📍 1859 Ashton Villa, Galveston
📅 Sunday, October 18
⏰ 1:00–3:30 PM

Enjoy an afternoon featuring the Turtles About Town art project, delicious bites, beer & wine, a raffle, and a special celebration of our Volunteer of the Year, Niels Nilson Lenz 🏆

🎟️ Early Bird tickets are LIVE NOW! Grab yours for $100 before September 1 - tickets go up to $125 after that.

💙 Want to make an even bigger splash? Sponsorship opportunities are also live now! Your support directly fuels local sea turtle conservation and ocean programs.

Come make some waves with us, we hope to sea you there! All details at https://seaturtles.org/the-art-of-saving-sea-turtles/

Thank you to everyone who showed up to rally in Galveston, TX for our endangered species in the Gulf of Mexico! The Gulf...
08/20/2026

Thank you to everyone who showed up to rally in Galveston, TX for our endangered species in the Gulf of Mexico!

The Gulf is home to several critically endangered and threatened marine species, including the ultra-rare Rice's Whale, the critically endangered Kemp's Ridley Sea Turtle, s***m whales, smalltooth sawfish, and deep-water corals. With oil and gas leasing and operations in the Gulf of Mexico being exempted from Endangered Species Act requirements all of these species are more threatened now than ever before.

Enacted in December 1973 the Endangered Species Act (ESA) had protected marine and coastal wildlife in the Gulf of Mexico for decades. For more than 50 years the ESA in the Gulf drove progress towards the recovery and rebound of Brown Pelicans, Kemp's Ridley Sea Turtles, Green Sea Turtles, Florida Manatees, and countless other gulf coast species.

Rolling back endangered species protections in the Gulf for oil and gas is NOT progress, but regressing back to a time when decision makers valued making a quick buck over the things that make the Gulf extremely unique and special.

If you would still like to join the fight, you still have a chance! Check out our partners along the Gulf coast who are using their voices in collaboration with the endangered species coalition at: https://www.endangered.org/marine-life-rallies/

The SPAWN team wants to give a huge shout out to Vesper - our summer volunteer with the 10,000 Redwood Program!Her conta...
08/19/2026

The SPAWN team wants to give a huge shout out to Vesper - our summer volunteer with the 10,000 Redwood Program!

Her contagious energy, staunch environmentalism, and vivacious spirit made her such an asset to the team.

No task was too big or too small for this incredible human being — from weeding non-native plants, supporting the SPAWN nursery to monitoring planted Redwoods and conducting outreach, Vesper gave all tasks her unwavering enthusiasm.

Help us wish her the best of luck as she navigates her senior year of High School!

08/13/2026

A real blast from the past... or how us *millenials* say it, ! We dug up this vintage PSA from the days when Turtle Island Restoration Network was still known as the Sea Turtle Restoration Project. The message, though? Still as important as ever 💚

Back then, we were asking folks to call the Sea Turtle Hotline to report Kemp’s ridley sea turtles and help protect this critically endangered species. Decades later, we’re still working to give these incredible turtles a fighting chance. Press play, enjoy the nostalgia, and remember: when you see a sea turtle in need, report it to the hotline for the entire Texas coast!

Client: Sea Turtle Restoration Project (TIRN before it was TIRN!)
Produced & Written by: Sunset Productions
Post Production: Fast Cut Films
Editor: Mike Snow

More good news - not only are Kemp's ridley sea turtles having another record-breaking nesting season, but so are the Gr...
08/12/2026

More good news - not only are Kemp's ridley sea turtles having another record-breaking nesting season, but so are the Green sea turtles now, too! So far this year, 60 green turtle nests have been confirmed on the Texas coast, exceeding the previous annual record of 51 nests, set in 2023.

To get real-time nest counts, surf over to our blog here ➡️ https://seaturtles.org/turtle-count-texas-coast/

Photo of a nesting Green sea turtle by Nicolas Pilcher 💚

Longtime resident of San Geronimo Valley and avid gardener, Frank Morris, has nurtured many Redwood seedlings into healt...
08/07/2026

Longtime resident of San Geronimo Valley and avid gardener, Frank Morris, has nurtured many Redwood seedlings into healthy saplings 🌱 Needing a place for them to flourish, Frank reached out to the 10,000 Redwood Program team via a flyer he saw in his community asking for community support and engagement!

Happy to receive the generous donation of 17 Redwood saplings, the SPAWN team encourages other community members of the valley to support in whatever way they can - tree donations, seed collecting, volunteer during planting events, providing land for planting, monetary donations, etc.

Please send any inquires to [email protected] 🌲 We will be excited to see Frank later this year supporting the program by planting his trees in land!

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9255 Sir Francis Drake Boulevard
Olema, CA
94950

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