Hawksbill Turtles

Hawksbill turtles, although a vital resource to the ecosystem is dwelling in numbers; and is coming close to being extinct. Scientist have conducted in the Caribbean, Columbian, and Hawaiian islands and found a decrease of turtles showing up on shore (Meylan, 1999). Over the years a massive decrease in sea turtles has been affecting the seas due to the impact that humans have had. As of right now there are only five populations around the world that has female turtles nesting 1000s eggs every year, but yet the population still decreased 80% in the last 105 years (Mark, Set, 2012). This projection that we have seen in the past is something that will continue in the future, so that means that the turtle is to be losing numbers dramatically. (Meylan,

Ocean turtles need to achieve the surface to inhale, and in this manner numerous suffocate once got. Known as bycatch, this is a genuine risk to hawksbill turtles. Notwithstanding their present security under the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) and numerous national laws, there is still an exasperatingly huge measure of illicit exchange hawksbill shells and items. They are much looked for after all through the tropics for their lovely chestnut and yellow carapace plates that are fabricated into tortoiseshell things for adornments and trimmings. In late decades, eastern Asia has given an energetic business sector to tortoiseshell. Hawksbills are particularly susceptible to entanglement in gillnets and accidental capture on fishing hooks. Sea turtles need to reach the surface to breathe, and therefore many drown once caught. Known as bycatch, this is a serious threat to hawksbill turtles. The increase of the bycatch upsurges their mortality rate by plenty causing the population of these turtles to deteriorate