#maui sea turtle

The US Fish and Wildlife Service and NOAA Fisheries have responded to a legal agreement with environmental groups by proposing to designate approximately 2,233 acres of nesting and basking beaches in the main Hawaiian Islands, with additional areas in the northwestern Hawaiian Islands, American Sāmoa, Guam, and the Northern Mariana Islands.

The Maui Ocean Center welcomed six new green sea turtle hatchlings to the facility’s Turtle Lagoon this month. The Aquarium will host a turtle-naming contest in the near future to give the honu hatchlings their Hawaiian names.

Through Sea Life Park Hawaiʻi’s Hawaiian green sea turtle Educational Loan Program, Maui Ocean Center has released a total of 54 green sea turtles over the past 17 years to the open ocean. The Maui Ocean Center plans to release six juvenile green sea turtles into the open sea to continue their life in the wild.