Thanks to decades of protections, global sea turtle populations generally on the rise

In 2018, something extraordinary happened in Phuket, Thailand. For the first time in five years, a leatherback turtle (Dermochelys coriacea) crept onto a local beach, dug a nest in the sand, and laid 118 tiny white eggs. Not long after that, two more nests appeared.

When the next nesting season came around, between November 2019 and February 2020, the amount of nests nearly tripled: local monitors recorded 11 leatherback turtle nests, which resulted in 351 hatchlings.

https://news.mongabay.com/2020/05/slow-and-steady-sea-turtles-mount-a-long-term-recovery/