SAVE EVERYTHING
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 male desert box turtle on Ted Turner’s Armendaris Ranch in southern New Mexico.
Ted Turner's Armendaris Ranch in southern New Mexico is home to many amazing Chihuahuan Desert animals, including a number of desert box turtles. These highly elusive animals seem to materialize out of nowhere after the monsoon rains form ephemeral puddles in the...
A hatchling Bolson tortoise enjoys a juicy treat of the fruit (“tunas”) of the prickly pear cactus.
Although their herbivorous diet consists mainly of grasses and other high-fiber plants, desert-dwelling tortoises - like this hatchling bolson tortoise born in 2021 as part of TESF's bolson tortoise breeding program in New Mexico - also enjoy juicy treats like the...
