Turtle Island Restoration Network

Photo by G.P. Schmahl, TIRN’s Board Secretary and retired Superintendent of the Flower Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuary. Photo Credit: G.P. Schmahl/NOAA.

In 2019, San Antonio Bay Estuarine Waterkeeper and Diane Wilson won the largest citizen Clean Water Act settlement in U.S. history against Formosa Plastics, which included a binding agreement to zero discharge of plastic.

The Gulf of Mexico is home to more than twenty species of threatened and endangered species. From green sea turtles to nassau grouper, and from rough cactus coral to the Gulf’s unique Rice’s whales, these species are part of the rich tapestry of marine life that the Gulf is known for.

But we could lose that marine life that keeps our oceans and coastal communit...

Header photo credit: Tucker Joenz Florida FWC, taken under NOAA permit 18786