Let Our Turtle Family Live! Our Hawaiian turtles are special. The turtles that come to your island beaches are the children and grandchildren of other turtles who came there to nest. If the turtles are killed, there will be no new turtles to come back to our beaches and live in our coastal waters. You can help to conserve sea turtles by keeping trash out of the ocean. When sea turtles mistake plastic for food, they can become sick and die. Every year, people of all ages pick up trash on beaches so that the turtles and other special marine life will have a clean and safe ocean. It will take many years for sea turtle numbers to increase to healthy numbers, but it will happen if we try.

'Ae ka Holomua o ko Kakou 'Ohana Honu! Kuikawa ko kakou mau honu. 'O na honu e noho ma kou mau kapakai, he mau keiki a he mau mo'opuna lakou o na honu i ho'o punana ma laila. Ina pepehi 'ia a make kela mau honu, 'a'ole e loa'a ana na honu houe ho'i ana i ko kakou mau kapakai. Hiki ia 'oe ke kokua i ka holomua 'ana o ke ola o na honu kai ma ka honua me ke kiloi 'ole 'ana o na 'opala i loko o ke kai. Ke 'ai na honukai i ka 'opala, loa'a lakou i ma'i a make. I ka makahiki a pau, 'ohi na kanaka like 'ole i ka 'opala ma na kapakai i mea i malama na wahi o na honu a o na holoholona like ole o ke kai. He mau makahiki paha no ka ho'amahuahua 'ana o ka helu o na honu kai, aka ina ho'a'o kakou, hiki no.

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