Delisting the Honu

Our friends at the Sea Turtle Restoration Project join the opposition of the delisting of the Hawaiian green sea turtle:

Turtles Face Premature Loss of Protections and Return of Hunting

Hawaiian green sea turtle populations have increased steadily since their hunting was banned and they were given federal protections and listed as threatened under the ESA in 1978. However, the Hawaiian honu is far from reaching the official government recovery goal of at least 5,000 nesters per year. Today, the population is only at about 10 percent of that goal, with an average around 390 nesting females per year between 2000-2009 in the Hawaiian archipelago, with a high of 843 in 2011.