December 2007 at the urging of TIRN's GotMercury.Org program the USDA dropped canned albacore tuna from its Women, Infants and Children (WIC) food program and revised its food packages to reflect growing concern about mercury contamination. Particularly vulnerable to the potent neurotoxin, WIC's 8 million low-income mothers and children will no longer receive mercury-contaminated canned albacore tuna as part of their nutrition supplements.

November 2007 Responding to a petition filed by STRP/TIRN and Center for Biological Diversity (CBD), the U.S. government announced it is considering listing loggerhead sea turtles found off the U.S. West Coast as endangered under the federal Endangered Species Act.

October 2007 Costa Rica President Arias Signs legislation to expropriate park in-Holdings to protect critically endangered leatherback nesting beach after pressure from STRP and its sister organization, PRETOMA and others.

September 2007  Petition seeking critical habitat designation off California and Oregon Coast for endangered Leatherback sea turtles filed by TIRN and a coalition of environmental organizations.

August 2007 STRP released a report titled Boiling Point: The Impact of Climate Change on Sea Turtles and the Urgent Need to Take Action, which compiles emerging research on the impacts of temperature change and sea level rises and their impacts on sea turtles.

June 2007 More nests on the Texas coast than ever recorded! The Kemp's ridley sea turtle, almost extinct in the 80s, is slowly recovering from years of poaching in Mexico prior to 1978 and drowning in shrimp trawls in US waters before the Turtle Excluder Device was required by federal law.

December 2006 Atlantic White Marlin swim toward endangered species listing as     as National Marine Fisheries Service announces status review for billfish threatened by longline fishing pursuant to a court-approved settlement agreement resolving a lawsuit filed by TIRN and CBD.

November 2006 TIRN, working with other environmental groups successfully fought off a Bush Administration proposal to allow drift-gillnet fishing into protected areas off the Northern California and Southern Oregon coasts in 2006. November 15, 2006 marked the end of a proposed three-month fishing season that would have allowed drift-gillnet fishing vessels to set their deadly gear in the Pacific Leatherback Conservation Area, a marine protected area stretching from Point Sur, California to central Oregon in which drift-gillnet gear is seasonally banned to protected the critically endangered Pacific leatherback sea turtle.

August 2006 GotMercury.org release report on  toxic mercury in tuna served in Chicago sushi restaurants.    

July 2006 TIRN and PRETOMA successfully work to create new wildlife refuge for leatherback and olive ridley sea turtles in Costa Rica.  The refuge includes a 19,846 hectare Marine Protected Area.

June 2006 The Sea Turtle Restoration Project presented a plan of action to the United Nations regarding the protection and restoration of the leatherback sea turtle against longline fishing. Over 1,000 scientists from nearly 100 countries and over 280 NGOs joined in a call for a moratorium on high seas industrial longline fishing to prevent that extinction.

April 2006  International Sea Turtle Swimway Proposed in Gulf of Mexico as top world sea turtle experts call for action for the Kemp's ridley sea turtles in the Gulf of Mexico. A resolution passed in Crete at the 26th Annual Symposium on Sea Turtle Biology and Conservation that recommends that all relevant governmental agencies work to create a migration and nesting season no commercial fishing zone (marine reserve) in the state waters adjoining North and South Padre Islands, Texas, and a year round no-commercial fishing zone from the Mexican border south to Tampico, creating an international protected Kemp's Ridley Swimway from Corpus Christi, Texas, south to Tampico, Mexico.