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Around forty delegates to the National Sea Turtle Workshop stand and sit together for a group photograph in a timber-framed room at the Two Oceans Aquarium in Cape Town.

Africa & Middle East

Forty-Five People and One Plan for South Africa’s Turtles

South Africa has been protecting sea turtles on its nesting beaches since 1963. ...

A hawksbill turtle swimming at the surface of a rehabilitation tank, seen from above and in front. Her patterned brown and amber shell and a single raised front flipper are in frame, with the pointed hawk-like beak that gives the species its name clearly visible.

Africa & Middle East

Amber Lost a Flipper Long Before She Washed Ashore

The subadult hawksbill turtle that washed ashore at Betty’s Bay on September 7 ...

A Nature Seychelles field officer in a blue shirt bending over a nesting hawksbill turtle in beach vegetation on Cousin Island, the turtle part buried in pale sand.

Africa & Middle East

Six Knitters, One Hawksbill, and Cousin Island

Nature Seychelles has spent decades counting hawksbill turtles coming ashore on Cousin Island ...

A hawksbill sea turtle lies head-down in a shallow body pit she has dug in pale coral sand on Ile Plate, her dark patterned carapace filling the frame, low green vegetation behind her.

Africa & Middle East

A Hawksbill Dug for Three Hours to Find the Right Spot

A hawksbill sea turtle spent three hours on a beach on Ile Plate, ...

A hawksbill turtle sits in a hollow she has dug among eroded coral rock at the top of a beach on Desroches Island, her worn grey-brown shell facing the camera and the reef and open sea behind her.

Africa & Middle East

A Tagged Hawksbill Returned to Desroches After 15 Years

A female hawksbill turtle hauled out on Desroches Island in the Seychelles outer ...