Monitoring the Movements of Head-Started Hawksbill Turtles Using Satellite Telemetry

      Sea turtles produce thousands of eggs in their lifetime hatching into thousands of new recruits in the form of hatchings returning to the sea. However, the survival of these hatchings are very low where estimates of one in a thousand would survive to maturity. A common response to this is to raise these hatchings to a bigger size where they could survive the perils in the sea much better before release, generally termed as “head-starting”. However, there are concerns that head-started turtles might not survive too as they are used to being fed while in captivity and not able to hunt for food when released into the wild.