Status
**It is hard to know the total population of sea turtles because only adult female turtles come ashore and some nest multiple times per season and some nest once every couple of seasons, therefore population data is based on the number of adult females to visit the nesting sites per year and the figures are compared throughout the decades**
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Kemp's Ridley- critically endangered
Green and Black- endangered with a heavy decline
Loggerhead- endangered with a decline in nests in Georgia and South Carolina, but no decline in nests in southern Florida Atlantic areas
Olive Ridley- endangered, but most abundant sea turtle in the world
Hawksbill- critically endangered with very little data
Flatback- population unknown, but most vulnerable species due to restricted distribution because an environmental change could wipe out the entire species
Leatherback- probably less than 115,000 adult females worldwide, but numbers do not appear to be declining