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These islands near Australia are giving hope for tropical marine turtles facing a “man drought”

New research indicates Papua New Guinea’s Conflict Islands are producing balanced sex ratios of green and hawksbill turtle hatchlings– a situation scientists...

6 October 2023

WWF-Australia’s marine scientist, Christine Hof, with a hawksbill turtle that has been paired with a satellite tracker on Milman Island, February 2017

Satellites and DNA reveal new insights into western Pacific’s rapidly declining hawksbill turtles

For the first time, a new study reveals that many hawksbill turtles satellite-tagged in Papua New Guinea’s (PNG) Conflict Islands swam over 1,000km to reach...

15 August 2023

Francesca Roncolato= WWF-Australia= with a tortoiseshell item donated to the Surrender Your Shell project

Aussies donate hundreds of tortoiseshell items to help stop illegal trade

The hawksbill turtle conservation project Surrender Your Shell, which urged Australians to hand in their tortoiseshell products, has been a success with 328...

16 June 2022

A hawksbill explores the Great Barrier Reef and experiences the ocean for the first time

The moment turtles, or gungu, see the Reef for the first time

Eleven turtles, raised at James Cook University from the time they were hatchlings, have been released on the Great Barrier Reef, experiencing the ocean for...

14 June 2021

Turtle shell products for sale in Latin America & the Carribean

New campaign urges Australians to give up tortoiseshell to save the hawksbill turtle

Australians are being urged to surrender their tortoiseshell products, such as jewellery, combs and sunglasses and other trinkets, as part of a groundbreaking...

4 December 2020

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4,000 chemical compounds found in Great Barrier Reef turtles

Toxic chemicals are accumulating in Great Barrier Reef marine life, including turtles and fish species popular with consumers, according to a new report by...

4 December 2020

Green turtle hatchling emerging from egg

Combination of shade & irrigation could produce more male turtles

A combination of shade and irrigation could be a way to cool sea turtle nests enough to produce more male hatchlings, according to research conducted on Milman...

7 September 2019

A hawksbill turtle (Eretmochelys imbricata) swimming above corals in Roatan, Bay Islands, Honduras

WWF statement on CITES' decision on illegal marine turtle trade

This is a win for marine turtle conservation. It is now up to governments to effectively implement these decisions.

26 August 2019

Turtles discovered in raids against illegal turtle trade, Vietnam

Scientists extract DNA from hawksbill turtle products to help save species

Scientists have developed a test to extract DNA from hawksbill turtle products including tortoiseshell jewellery. It’s a breakthrough that could help save the...

20 August 2019

A green turtle (Chelonia mydas) having a rest on the coral sea floor. Lighthouse Bommie, Great Barrier Reef

Methods trialled to stop heat turning green turtles female in Qld’s north

A trial of ways to cool turtle nests is underway in Queensland’s Far North as global warming threatens turtle populations throughout the tropics.

11 February 2019

Hawksbill turtle (Eretmochelys imbricata) swimming underwater, Nosy Be, North Madagascar

RCL Cruises and WWF-Australia announce partnership to protect critically endangered hawksbill turtles

For the first time in Asia-Pacific, WWF and its partners will enable technology to extract DNA from tortoiseshell products, and help put a stop to the illegal...

13 November 2018

Hawksbill turtle (Eretmochelys imbricata) swimming through a reef. Kimbe Bay, West New Britain, Papua New Guinea. 31 May 2010

Coral Sea is a “hawksbill highway” for critically endangered turtles

New satellite tracking has confirmed that critically endangered hawksbill turtles use the Coral Sea as their highway to travel from Papua New Guinea to the...

30 May 2018