Solomon Islands largest hawksbill turtle rookery shows signs of recovery after 150 years of excessive exploitation.

After WWII all hawksbill turtle shell coming out of Solomon Islands was exported to Japan [ 4 ], and by the mid-1970s it had become apparent to the Ministry of Natural Resources (MNR) that the Arnavons were a highly significant nesting area for hawksbill turtles and that its population was in rapid decline [ 11 ].

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To test for a significant trend in nest numbers over time we used a linear regression model of the mean number of nests observed per night per beach against years since 1991 (i.e. # nests ~ f (beach + year + beach × year), using the software R [ 29 ].

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