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Scientists have identified that the hawksbill global population has declined by over 80% during the last century and most populations are still declining, depleted or are remnants of larger aggregations. Like other marine turtles, hawksbills are threatened by the loss of habitat due to coastal development, poaching, excessive egg-collection, fishery and other human-related mortality, pollution, and climate change. It is this last threat, climate change, which has some turtle conservationists worried about the long-term survival of hawksbill turtles. |
