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
Prairie dog plague mitigation
To mitigate plague, we routinely control the flea vectors that carry the plague bacterium, Yersinia pestis, using an insecticide applied at the burrows. Here we are using a rodent grain bait containing fipronil (commonly used to control fleas on pet cats and dogs) to...
Swainson’s hawks congregate for a meal at the Jornada bat caves on Ted Turner’s Armendaris Ranch.
Swainson’s hawks congregate for a predictable meal during the summer months at the Jornada bat caves on Ted Turner's Armendaris Ranch in New Mexico. These caves are the second largest lava tubes in North America and provide habitat for eight bat species. The migratory...
Prairie dogs are ecosystem engineers.
By creating burrow systems, clipping vegetation, and improving the nutrient quality of their habitat, prairie dogs serve as ecosystem engineers that support numerous other native species of the prairie grasslands, including rattlesnakes. Unfortunately, prairie dogs...