Interactive map shows turtle nesting sites worldwide

The State of the World's Sea Turtles (SWOT) hosts an interactive map of nesting sites for hawksbill, leatherback, and loggerhead turtles on its Web site:

Every data point on this map represents the original work of a data provider and the institution he or she represents. Clicking on individual data points in this map will link to the original data and their sources. All data must be credited to the original source.

This interactive map is the first representation of global hawksbill, loggerhead and leatherback nesting data ever developed. Learn about the challenge of gathering data in such an initiative and the significance of this map in this article from SWOT Report, Vol. III.