SAVE EVERYTHING
CONSERVING BIODIVERSITY
by ensuring the persistence of imperiled species and their habitats with an emphasis on private land
The Turner Endangered Species Fund and Biodiversity Divisions are dedicated to conserving biological diversity by ensuring the persistence of imperiled species and their habitats with an emphasis on private land.
We aim to use the best science to effectively conserve biodiversity and establish a new level of effectiveness for private-public efforts to redress the extinction crisis.
Much of the wonder of nature can be saved for future generations if conservation activities are more frequently and successfully applied on private working landscapes like those owned by Ted Turner.
Much of the wonder of nature can be saved for future generations if conservation activities are more frequently and successfully applied on private working landscapes like those owned by Ted Turner.
INSPIRING
a new generation of young scientists and policy makers to improve the balance between conservation and commerce
The Future of Funding for Wildlife Conservation
NEWSROOM
A hybrid tortoise is basking in front of one of the several burrows we started for them at the Ladder Ranch.
Ladder Tortugarium: A sanctuary for hybrid tortoises In 2019, volunteers and staff from several Turner entities (Turner Endangered Species Fund (TESF), Ted Turner Reserves (TTR), and the Ladder Ranch) teamed up to build two ~1 acre tortoise holding pens at Ladder...
Gertie, the Bolson tortoise weighs 26 pounds and is at least 60 years old.
The critically endangered Bolson tortoise is the largest North American land reptile. Its closest living relative is the gopher tortoise of the southeastern US, while the desert tortoises of the desert southwest are more distant cousins. Bolson tortoises occupied much...
True Wild: The Real Story Of Wolves On Ted Turner’s Montana Ranch. By Mountain Journal.
All, Recently, we collaborated with Mountain Journal, an important outlet for journalism about the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem (www.mountainjournal.org), to develop a short film entitled True Wild. True to its name, the film celebrates the majesty of the Flying D...