Illegal fishing practices causing mass death of olive ridley turtles on Tamil Nadu coast: Experts
Many large-scale fishers hesitate to use turtle excluder devices, arguing that these devices could decrease their catch ...
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Maharashtra: Wildlife officials begin tagging olive ridley turtles along Sindhudurg coast
After tagging olive ridley turtles with flipper tags on the beaches of Ratnagiri, Wildlife Institute of India has accelerated ...
TN To Form Marine Elite Force To Protect Olive Ridley Turtles
The Tamil Nadu Forest Department has decided to establish a new Marine Elite Force to prevent the deaths of Olive Ridley ...
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Marine Elite Force in Tamil Nadu to protect endangered Olive Ridley turtles
Chennai: The Tamil Nadu Forest Department has decided to establish a new Marine Elite Force to prevent the deaths of Olive ...
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Hundreds of sea turtles take over beach for mass nesting
Amazing video shows a seemingly endless stretch of beach near the Rushikulya River mouth in Odisha, India, and Olive Ridley ...
Far North has almost half of NZ’s turtle strandings
An unusually high number of turtle strandings has kept Far North Department of Conservation staff busy, with 19 washed ashore in Te Hiku over spring and summer, with some set to be released back into ...
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Olive Ridley turtle deaths: Centre seeks report from TN; NGT impleads AP in case
Meanwhile, the southern bench of National Green Tribunal (NGT), which had ... told TNIE he was aware of the unusually high number of Olive Ridley turtle deaths in Chennai, but the reasons are ...
A surge of dead sea turtles in the sand
Hundreds of Olive Ridley turtle carcasses have been found since January 2025 in Tamil Nadu’s Chennai and Chengalpattu districts; conservationists say number of deaths three times than usual during ...
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Why Tamil Nadu’s shores have become a death trap for Olive Ridley turtles
Initial autopsy reports have indicated that the probable cause of the deaths could be drowning. TN govt issues stern warnings, increases surveillance around coastlines.