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

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Blowout penstemon
For years now, TESF has been assisting with recovery of the species. Since inception in 1997 TESF has been dedicated to arresting the extinction crisis by advancing reintroduction projects for imperiled plants, birds, fishes, mammals, reptiles, and amphibians.
TESF works to conserve one of New Mexico’s largest remaining Chiricahua leopard frog populations.
Water tanks used for bison ranching on the Ladder Ranch in New Mexico have also become important habitat for threatened Chiricahua leopard frogs. TESF works to conserve one of New Mexico's largest remaining Chiricahua leopard frog populations on the Ladder Ranch, and...
Effort under way to benefit critically endangered American burying beetle.
Recent scientific publications affirm the extinction crisis as one of humanity’s most pressing and least attended problems. Because of its sweep and humanity’s disregard, it is being cemented into the future. But it does not have to be that way. Such a sad and bleak...