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Annual mass nesting sees record 700,000 turtles on Indian beach
Over 700,000 Olive Ridley turtles descended upon Rushikulya beach in India's eastern Odisha state on Friday (February 21), a record number for this annual mass nesting event also known as Arribada, ...
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Operation Olivia: Safeguarding Odisha's Olive Ridley Sea Turtles
The Indian Coast Guard's 'Operation Olivia' aims to protect Olive Ridley sea turtles during their mass nesting in Odisha. The operation, which involves social awareness drives and restricting human ...
Endangered turtles return to Dynamic beach in Odisha: Mass nesting of Olive Ridleys begins
Last year, the Olive Ridleys skipped the beach along the Rushikulya river for mass egg laying. Only the sporadic nesting of 1 ...
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Maharashtra: Wildlife officials begin tagging olive ridley turtles along Sindhudurg coast
After tagging olive ridley turtles with flipper tags ... and provide habitat for other marine life. A decline in sea turtle populations weakens these essential functions, affecting overall ocean ...
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Why Tamil Nadu’s shores have become a death trap for Olive Ridley turtles
The carcasses of over 1,000 Olive ... Ridley turtles this year. In general however, unchecked mechanised trawlers and gillnets (a wall of netting that hangs in the water column) have become a death ...
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Olive Ridley turtle deaths: Centre seeks report from TN; NGT impleads AP in case
CHENNAI: As the death toll of Olive Ridley turtles continues to rise during the ongoing nesting season this year, the Union government has sought a report from Tamil Nadu, whose coastal waters ...
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Over 1,100 dead olive ridley turtles wash ashore in southern India
More than 1,100 dead olive ridley turtles have washed ashore on the beaches of Tamil Nadu state in southern India this month. Most were found near the state capital, Chennai. “I never heard [of ...
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Over 1,000 olive ridley turtles washed ashore dead on Chennai beaches
Chennai: Environmentalists in the southern megapolis are peeved at the alarming death of Olive Ridley Turtles on the Chennai beaches. According to news reports, more than 1,000 turtles have washed ...
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10 Best Places to Swim With Sea Turtles – A Complete Guide
Green Sea Turtle. Image by Longjourneys via Depositphotos This danger may be the biggest threat to sea turtles as well as other marine life. For instance ... Up to 1,615 miles (2,600 km) Olive Ridley ...
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Mass death of olive ridley turtles raises urgent call for action
More than 1,000 olive ridley turtles have washed-up dead, on Chennai’s coast, in the last few weeks. Conservationists attribute the primary cause of the mass turtle deaths to drowning due to ...
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Cold-stunned green sea turtles are recovering at a Florida marine life center
JUNO BEACH, Fla. (AP) — An arctic blast that brought a rare snowfall to northern Florida last week left green sea turtles as far south as St. Augustine suffering from a condition known as cold ...