Threats
• general threats to marine turtles
The principal cause of the historical, worldwide decline of the green turtle is long-term harvest of eggs and adults on nesting beaches and juveniles and adults on feeding grounds. These harvests continue in some areas of the world and compromise efforts to recover this species.
Incidental capture in fishing gear, primarily in gillnets, but also in trawls, traps and pots, longlines, and dredges is a serious ongoing source of mortality that also adversely affects the species' recovery.
Green turtles are also threatened, in some areas of the world, by a disease known as fibropapillomatosis (FP).
For more information, please visit our threats to marine turtles page.