typhlonectes:

Last month, a  paper published in the journal Science Advances announced
a conservation success: Imperiled sea turtle populations were, in
general, rising.

For example, from 1973 to 2012, the number of green
turtles nesting on a Hawaiian beach grew from 200 to 2,000. Hawaiian
green turtles are now listed as a subpopulation of “least concern” by the International Union for Conservation of Nature.

But the recent report was not all good news. The populations of
leatherback turtles in the North Atlantic continue to drop, and some
species, like flatback turtles, remain “data deficient,” meaning that
researchers have very little information with which to estimate the size
of the population…

GOOD NEWS:  Sea Turtles Are a Conservation Success Story – Mostly