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
History is being made on Ted Turner’s Ladder Ranch.
The US Fish and Wildlife Service, with support from New Mexico Department of Game and Fish, has decided to release a family of Mexican wolves on the Ladder Ranch in New Mexico. This is historic since Mexican wolves have never been released on private land in the...
Graduate student Julia Joos, collaborates with TESF biologists Chris Wiese and Scott Hillard for a portion of her PhD work that involves bolson tortoises in New Mexico.
Ohio University Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology graduate student Julia Joos studies the thermal ecology of North American tortoises to gain a better understanding of how tortoises cope with hotter and drier environments caused by climate change. By...
Mike Phillips offers his thoughts on the Colorado wolf reintroduction project, his work throughout the years, and the state of wolves and our natural world as it stands today.
https://thewolfconnection.buzzsprout.com/1081496/8055209-episode-32-mike-phillips-colorado-wolf-reintroduction