While he was getting ready to anchor his canoe, he noticed a hawksbill turtle, the largest turtle he had ever seen. In Palau, the shell of a hawksbill is used to make a special kind of money.

Hawksbills have long been harvested for their shell, meat and eggs resulting in populations ... Largely due to the efforts of the Barbados Sea Turtle Project, the hawksbill is now protected from ...

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.

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 ...