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In celebration of Ted’s 84th birthday, we honor Team Turner’s historic work on behalf of the critically imperiled bolson tortoise.
Ted & family with Gertie, one of the oldest bolson tortoises in our recovery program.
Mike Phillips, the 2021 Aldo Leopold Memorial Award recipient, delivers his keynote address at TWS’ Annual Conference.
https://wildlife.org/tws2022-a-salve-for-conservation-wounds/
Scientists follow up on Biden plan and suggest “Western Rewilding Network” on federal lands.
Mike Phillips is co-author of recent article in Bioscience, "Rewilding the American West". The authors propose using portions of federal land to support wolf and beaver to improve biodiversity. Ripple etal_2022Download
Senior Conservation Scientist Ross Kiester of the Turtle Conservancy visits Turner’s New Mexico ranches.
http://tesf.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/Kiester-Turtle-Conservancy-article-2.pdfKiester writes about his visit to Turner's New Mexico ranches and the release of the Bolson Tortoises to the wild after dozens of millennia. Kiester Turtle Conservancy articleDownload
Scientists and researchers comment on the need to halt ill-advised culling of wolves in Sweden.
In the prestigious journal Science, TESF scientist, Mike Phillips, and 17 other researchers from five countries drew attention to the need to halt an ill-advised culling of the wolf population in Sweden. http://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.add5299...
A coyote carries dinner.
Resourceful coyote carries its catfish catch home. The catfish was likely caught in Elephant Butte reservoir located approximately three miles from where the picture was taken. Photo taken by Turner Biological Team, Dan Martin and Hunter Prude.
Mountain lion ambushes deer at a rain catchment.
In the Fra Cristobal Mountains on the Armendaris Ranch, New Mexico a Mountain a lion is seen on camera ambushing a deer at a rain catchment. Although water sources tend to aggregate many wildlife species during hot and dry season in the Chihuahuan Desert, mountain...
Mike Phillips on MAHB dialogue series
Geoffrey Holland interviews Mike Phillips for the Millennium Alliance for Humanity and the Biosphere (MAHB) dialogue series. https://mahb.stanford.edu/blog/mahb-dialogue-with-mike-phillips-executive-director-of-the-turner-endangered-species-fund/
US Fish and Wildlife Service Director Martha Williams visits Bolson tortoise project.
TESF was honored by recent interest in the bolson tortoise project by US Senator Martin Heinrich and US Fish and Wildlife Service Director Martha Williams. With their support we should be able to release tortoises on the Sevilleta and Bosque National Wildlife Refuges...
In celebration of Ted’s 84th birthday, we honor Team Turner’s historic work on behalf of the critically imperiled bolson tortoise.
Ted & family with Gertie, one of the oldest bolson tortoises in our recovery program.
Mike Phillips, the 2021 Aldo Leopold Memorial Award recipient, delivers his keynote address at TWS’ Annual Conference.
https://wildlife.org/tws2022-a-salve-for-conservation-wounds/
Scientists follow up on Biden plan and suggest “Western Rewilding Network” on federal lands.
Mike Phillips is co-author of recent article in Bioscience, "Rewilding the American West". The authors propose using portions of federal land to support wolf and beaver to improve biodiversity. Ripple etal_2022Download
Senior Conservation Scientist Ross Kiester of the Turtle Conservancy visits Turner’s New Mexico ranches.
http://tesf.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/Kiester-Turtle-Conservancy-article-2.pdfKiester writes about his visit to Turner's New Mexico ranches and the release of the Bolson Tortoises to the wild after dozens of millennia. Kiester Turtle Conservancy articleDownload
Scientists and researchers comment on the need to halt ill-advised culling of wolves in Sweden.
In the prestigious journal Science, TESF scientist, Mike Phillips, and 17 other researchers from five countries drew attention to the need to halt an ill-advised culling of the wolf population in Sweden. http://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.add5299...
A coyote carries dinner.
Resourceful coyote carries its catfish catch home. The catfish was likely caught in Elephant Butte reservoir located approximately three miles from where the picture was taken. Photo taken by Turner Biological Team, Dan Martin and Hunter Prude.
Mountain lion ambushes deer at a rain catchment.
In the Fra Cristobal Mountains on the Armendaris Ranch, New Mexico a Mountain a lion is seen on camera ambushing a deer at a rain catchment. Although water sources tend to aggregate many wildlife species during hot and dry season in the Chihuahuan Desert, mountain...
Mike Phillips on MAHB dialogue series
Geoffrey Holland interviews Mike Phillips for the Millennium Alliance for Humanity and the Biosphere (MAHB) dialogue series. https://mahb.stanford.edu/blog/mahb-dialogue-with-mike-phillips-executive-director-of-the-turner-endangered-species-fund/
US Fish and Wildlife Service Director Martha Williams visits Bolson tortoise project.
TESF was honored by recent interest in the bolson tortoise project by US Senator Martin Heinrich and US Fish and Wildlife Service Director Martha Williams. With their support we should be able to release tortoises on the Sevilleta and Bosque National Wildlife Refuges...