The green turtle is a large, weighty sea turtle with a wide, smooth carapace, or shell. It inhabits tropical and subtropical coastal waters around the world and has been observed clambering onto ...

basking turtles and our tagged turtles.” A Hawaiian green sea turtle, or honu, is splashed by a wave as it hauls out on a Paia beach in June. All of the 276 turtle strandings documented by the ...

as to whether green turtles would be saved or harmed by allowing them to be “the buffalo of the sea.” Alison Rieser, a professor of ocean policy in the Department of Geography at the University of ...

Hauled out Hawaiian green sea turtles snooze on the Makena shore in August last year. While interactions with honu are more common on Maui as the population rebounds, all sea turtles are listed as ...

To help ensure the safe passage of Hawaiian Green sea turtle (honu) hatchlings and Native Hawaiian seabird fledglings at Sandy Beach Park, the City and County of Honolulu has temporarily turned ...

The Hawaiian archipelago is blessed with rare stretches of black sand beaches, a spectacular phenomenon created when hot basaltic lava meets the ocean. One of the most famous, and remote, black ...

The area earned its name from the large population of Hawaiian green sea turtles that call it home. This reef area is protected from the island's trade winds by Haleakala, making for relatively ...

The island was the second-largest in French Frigate Shoals, which are home to rare species like the endangered Hawaiian monk seal and the threatened sea green turtle. In addition, about 14 million ...

And for another, this beach is often visited by honu (Hawaiian green sea turtles) that like to swim to and sun on the shore. You might also catch a glimpse of a hawksbill sea turtle from time to time.