The shell’s popularity had predictable consequences for the turtle. Now critically endangered, hawksbill numbers have declined by an estimated 80 percent or more in the last century.

Hawksbills have long been harvested for their shell, meat and eggs resulting in populations that are severely depleted globally. Barbados has one of the largest hawksbill nesting populations in the ...

The Sea Turtle Assistance and Rescue (STAR) is urging boaters to slow down when plying waters frequented by nesting sea turtles after a critically endangered hawksbill was killed recently from ...

One day, a man from the village of Ngerchemai went out fishing. While he was getting ready to anchor his canoe, he noticed a hawksbill turtle, the largest turtle he had ever seen. In Palau, the ...