In the context of declining global hawksbill sea turtle (Eretmochelys imbricata) populations, the wider Caribbean region is of global conservation importance. This study compiles and presents previously unpublished sea turtle nesting-activity data for North East Tobago (11°19′13.53″N, −060°33′1.57″E) and reports the results of the first comprehensive survey of sea turtle nesting beaches at this southern Caribbean site. The results of this study quantify a previously undocumented, regionally important rookery for the globally critically endangered hawksbill sea turtle, consisting of untagged reproductive females.
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1 June 2015
First Documented Evidence of a Rookery of the Critically Endangered Hawksbill Sea Turtle (Eretmochelys imbricata) in North East Tobago
Grant Walker,
Keith William Gibson
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Chelonian Conservation and Biology
Vol. 14 • No. 1
June 2015
Vol. 14 • No. 1
June 2015