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
TESF is proud to advance the future for prairie dogs, one of the world’s greatest underdogs.
TESF manages prairie dogs on several Turner properties to provide habitat for the endangered black-footed ferret. Prairie dogs also complement Turner's bison herds as these species have co-evolved over thousands of years and constitute a grazing association: bison...
Female Mexican wolf at the Ladder Ranch captive breeding facility.
This is a photo of a breeding female Mexican wolf being temporally held at our captive breeding and pre-release facility at the Ladder Ranch in New Mexico. She along with her mate and four pups are scheduled to be released in Mexico in the near future. TESF has been...
Healthy westslope cutthroat trout on the Flying D Ranch.
A healthy westslope cutthroat trout from Cherry Creek on the Flying D Ranch in Montana. Turner Biodiversity restored these native trout to upper Cherry Creek in a decade long project that concluded in 2010. The population is now regularly monitored to assess health...