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Turtle Island Statement on OMB Director Candidate Mick Mulvaney President-elect Donald Trump has selected Mick Mulvaney, South Carolina Representative, for the Office of Management and Budget Director....
Posted: Fri, Jan 20, 2017 9:10am PST
Turtle Island Statement on EPA Administrator Candidate Scott Pruitt In advance of the confirmation hearings with the U.S. Senate, Turtle Island Restoration Network has issued the following statement on Scott Pruitt....
Posted: Fri, Jan 13, 2017 2:19pm PST
Thousand of Activists Call for Protection of Silky Sharks at U.N. Wildlife Conference This week conservationists delivered a petition signed by 15,002 global citizens to the Presidents of Costa Rica, Nicaragua, El Salvador and Guatemala calling on them to support greater protections for silky sharks at an upcoming world wildlife conservation meeting....
Posted: Wed, Sep 21, 2016 11:17am PDT
Silky Sharks Singled Out as Species to Protect at International Conservation Meeting in Ha This week, participants at an international conservation meeting in Hawaii set a new bar in the conservation of imperiled sharks by overwhelming voting in favor of a resolution to increase protections for silky sharks, a species facing dangerous declines due to industrial fishing practices. The resolution, advanced by Turtle Island Restoration Network, PRETOMA, and Nakawe Project at the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) World Conservation Congress, received 95 percent fav...
Posted: Thu, Sep 8, 2016 9:13am PDT
New Study Links Eating Shark Fins & Meat to Alzheimer’s Disease A new study by scientists from the University of Miami has found high concentrations of toxins linked to the development of Alzheimer’s disease in the fins and muscles of 10 species of sharks....
Posted: Thu, Sep 1, 2016 8:45am PDT
Senator Ben Allen Nominated for Presidential Champions of Change Award Turtle Island nominated Senator Ben Allen (D – Santa Monica) for the prestigious White House Champions of Change Award....
Posted: Thu, Sep 1, 2016 8:33am PDT
Conservationists Urge Increased Protections of Silky Sharks at International Meeting 
Turtle Island Restoration Network and partner organizations are calling on the delegates at an upcoming global conservation meeting to take action to reduce the killing of silky sharks. These sharks are targeted for their valuable fins, and are in dire need of greater protections....
Posted: Mon, Jul 25, 2016 10:19am PDT
Killer whales remain protected in Washington Olympia, WA, June 10, 2016 – Today the Washington Fish and Wildlife Commission voted unanimously to maintain killer whales on the state’s Endangered Species List. This vote follows the recommendation of Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife biologists who prepared a detailed review of the status of Washington’s southern resident killer whales. Oceana commends the Commission for its decision given the dire situation. Only eighty-three killer whales remain in the southern resident populati...
Posted: Wed, Jun 15, 2016 5:03pm PDT
Mary Kay Henry - Members Demand Say Aside The Rigged Election Results In SEIU 1021! 
Candidates and members of SEIU 1021 which has over 50,000 members discuss how their union's election was manipulated that ending up dis-enfranchize the members....
Posted: Sun, Mar 27, 2016 11:34pm PDT
Feds Launch Review of Endangered West Coast Orcas SEATTLE, January 25, 2016 — The National Marine Fisheries Service today announced a five-year review of endangered southern resident killer whales, which are down to just 84 orcas, to assess whether they are properly protected under the Endangered Species Act. The Fisheries Service last year announced plans to expand existing critical habitat protections from the killer whales’ summer habitat in Puget Sound to include 9,000 square miles of their winter foraging habitat along the West Coast so...
Posted: Wed, Jan 27, 2016 5:18pm PST
Crowdsourcing to Spot Illegal Fishing Vessels at Cocos Island Marine Protected Area 
Turtle Island Restoration Network, SeaTurtles.org, has formed a partnership DigitalGlobe’s crowdsourcing platform Tomnod.com to create the first crowdsourced digital patrol of the Cocos Island Marine Protected Area in order to defend one of the Pacific Ocean’s most vibrant marine life habitats....
Posted: Thu, Aug 20, 2015 11:59am PDT
Feds Propose New Rules to Protect Whales, Dolphins in Other Countries Regulations Will Prohibit Seafood Imports That Don’t Meet U.S. Standards for
Marine Mammal Protection...
Posted: Mon, Aug 10, 2015 4:35pm PDT
University of Denver Sturm College of Law Launches New Professorship in Animal Rights Law 
DENVER, CO — The University of Denver Sturm College of Law is gratified to announce the creation of a new Professorship that will bolster students’ ability and interest in representing animal rights. Funded by a generous gift from the Animal Legal Defense Fund (ALDF) and appointed by the dean of Denver Law, the ALDF Professorship will provide support for a faculty member dedicated to advancing the interests of animals through the legal system and engaging students in this field of work. The A...
Posted: Wed, Jun 24, 2015 5:34pm PDT
American Airlines Announces on Twitter Shark Fin Shipment Ban 
American Airlines sent out tweets today announcing that they will no longer be shipping shark fins....
Posted: Tue, Apr 7, 2015 12:38pm PDT
Endangered Hammerhead Shark Fins Exported from Costa Rica, Touch Down Illegally in U.S. Conservation groups PRETOMA and Turtle Island Restoration Network and have found evidence that hammerhead sharks (Sphyrna lewini) are being exported from Costa Rican ports and flown to plates in Hong Kong by way of stop-overs on U.S. soil....
Posted: Mon, Apr 6, 2015 11:18am PDT
Endangered Gulf of Mexico Sea Turtles Splash into Jindal’s Presidential Bid Conservation groups are taking a hard look at Gov. Bobby Jindal’s environmental record in advance of his expected campaign announcement in June. Turtle Island Restoration Network published an op-ed this week in the Houston Chronicle highlighting how Jindal has failed to protect the endangered sea turtles in his home state of Louisiana....
Posted: Thu, Mar 26, 2015 11:45am PDT
Hawaii Green Sea Turtles Remain ‘Threatened’ Despite Petitioners Efforts to Delist Climate Change, Development & Hawaii Longline Fishery Listed as Threats to Population...
Posted: Fri, Mar 20, 2015 2:53pm PDT
Juvenile Green Sea Turtle ‘Gina’ Migrates Over 310 Miles from Cocos Island to Golfo Dulce 
First evidence of habitat connectivity accomplished by collaborative tagging efforts (Photos and Map Available)....
Posted: Fri, Mar 20, 2015 10:46am PDT
Facebook Racially Profiles Native American Traditional Last Names Native Advocate Mike Raccoon Eyes Kinney discusses the racial profiling by Facebook against Native Americans, who use their traditional Native last names on Facebook and then deactivate their accounts claiming that are NOT Natives and are using phony, bogus last names....
Posted: Sat, Feb 28, 2015 4:49pm PST
It Is Time For Native People To Resolve Our Own Issues And Problems-By Mike Raccoon Eyes It Is Time For Native People To Resolve Our Own Issues And Problems....
Posted: Fri, Feb 20, 2015 11:51pm PST
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