Hawksbill sea turtle hatchlings are only about five centimetres (two inches) long, but they can grow to be up to 0.8 metres (2.5 feet) long if they survive the treacherous first few years of their ...

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.

Satellite tag attachment activities on a nesting hawksbill, Utila, Bay Islands, Honduras. Funding: Funding for this project was provided by the Boyd Lyon Sea Turtle Fund to QDB, the Sonoma County ...

DUBAI - Hawksbill sea turtles are a critically endangered species, often hunted and eaten illegally in many countries. However, when 11 malnourished Hawksbill sea turtles (Eretmochelys imbricata ...

Turtle Hospital staff collect an egg deposited by a critically ill female hawksbill sea turtle on Monday in Marathon, Fla. The female reptile, laden with eggs, was discovered on a beach in St ...

Endangered hawksbill sea turtles released into the seaMonday, Jun 10, 2013 Sharjah: -As a part of International World Oceans Day celebrations, a group of rehabilitated hawksbill sea turtles were ...

Abu Dhabi: Two resort employees spotted hundreds of baby turtle tracks on the beach of Saadiyat Island in Abu Dhabi, which led them to the discovery that endangered hawksbill sea turtles were ...

Hawksbill sea turtles are classified by the International Union for Conservation of Nature as critically endangered: Facing an “extremely high risk” of extinction in the wild in the “immediate future.

The eagerly anticipated hatching of the first hawksbill sea turtle nest on Abu Dhabi's Saadiyat Island has occurred in the dune conservation area fronting the spectacular five-star The St. Regis ...

The Environment Agency – Abu Dhabi (EAD) has confirmed the return of a Hawksbill sea turtle that was first tagged with a tracking number in 2013. After 12 years, the turtle has come back to nest ...

Dubai A total of 35 Hawksbill turtles were returned to the sea yesterday after they were washed up on UAE beaches due to exhaustion or undernourishment. After several months with the Dubai Turtle ...

Dear Gary, My parents were amongst the first tourists to visit the Seychelles in the 1970s on package holidays, arranged, I believe, through British Airways. They went several times between 1973 and ...