CRITTER: Thousands of sea turtle nests gone from Hawaii

Terry Lilley / contributed

The attached picture is of a green sea turtle at Anini Beach in Kauai that had a tag on her saying she was tagged in Midway Island over 1,000 miles away.

Courtesy of Terry Lilley

A green sea turtle, which is seen at Anini Beach in Kaua‘i, had a tag on her saying she was tagged in Midway Island more than 1,000 miles away.

Most of our green sea turtles (honu) over the last thousand years have laid their eggs way up in the Northwest Hawaiian Islands. This is truly amazing because when the turtles hatch they have an internal GPS that tells them the exact beach and place on that beach were they hatched.

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