Katherine Gallagher is a writer and sustainability expert. She holds a B.A. in English Literature from Chapman University and a Sustainable Tourism certificate from the GSTC. Globally distributed ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. For centuries, hawksbill sea turtles have returned to a shoreline in the eastern Philippines to lay their eggs, even as the human community has ...

The shell of an adult hawksbill sea turtle consists of about a dozen overlapping scales colored with streaks of gold, brown, orange, and red. Hawksbills have long been hunted for their shells—the ...

Costa Rican marine biologist Ariana Oporta-McCarthy grew up close to where a critically-endangered turtle nests: now she's helping to save it. Over the last 200 years, the Hawksbill turtle ...

Hawksbill turtles (Eretmochelys imbricata) are a critically endangered species. They are found in shallow tropical waters in the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Oceans and help maintain the health of ...