HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - Every year about this time, Hawaii Marine Animal Response starts to get calls about turtles that appear to be in distress on Hawaii beaches. Callers describe what appears to ...
Learn how Hawaii’s honu went from hunted staple to protected icon and what this sea turtle represents to the islands today.
ABC 7 Eyewitness News reported on the incident, posting a video of the man grabbing a sea turtle on a Hawaiian beach and ...
WASHINGTON (CN) – The National Marine Fisheries Service will launch a one year status review of Hawaiian green turtles to determine if they are a distinct population segment from other green ...
Hawaii is home to the largest hard-shelled sea turtles in the world. It is also the only place in the world where males haul out alongside females when they lay their eggs, and no one knows why. - ...
HONOLULU (KHON2) — Shell-ebrate good times. Come on! Let’s Shell-ebrate. Sea Life Park Hawaiʻi, Mālama i nā honu and 808 Cleanups hosted a World Turtle Shell-ebration for World Turtle Day on Monday, ...
Mac Poepoe grew up diving in the waters off Molokai to spear honu — Hawaii’s distinct species of green sea turtle — that helped feed his family. He often saw other fishermen hunt honu for profit, ...
Sometimes it takes travel to a place like Palau, where sea turtles are still relatively scarce, to make one appreciate their resurgence around the Hawaiian Islands. The final blow began in 1946. Due ...
HONOLULU (KHON2) — A couple of Hawaiian green sea turtles from Sea Life Park’s breeding program were released into the waters off Waimānalo on Thursday, April 22. The turtles, commonly known in Hawaii ...
State officials say a former Disney actress has apologized after posting footage of herself touching a threatened green sea turtle during a trip to Hawaii. The Hawaii Department of Land and Natural ...
The Maui Ocean Center has released four Hawaiian green sea turtles into the ocean. Luana, Holokai, Kapene, and Nanahea were hatched at Sea Life Park Hawaii in 2016, then transferred to Maui Ocean ...