olive ridley turtles – आवारा मुसाफिर

Home>>olive ridley turtles

Here locals patrol the beaches at night to protect endangered sea turtles

April 11, 202582 Views

For nearly four decades, residents in southern India’s coastal city of Chennai have patrolled moonlit beaches at night trying to protect sea turtles and their hatchlings that for millennia have nested along these shores. Hungry dogs, locals looking for a snack, and disorienting lights are among the hazards facing the olive ridley turtles and their eggs, which can take up to 60 days to hatch. Many turtles are caught offshore in fishing nets, which this year alone have killed hundreds of them in the area. A forest official collects olive ridley sea turtle eggs on Marina Beach in Chennai. A crow flies over a hatchery for the olive ridley sea turtles on Elliot’s Beach in Chennai. A volunteer collects broken egg shells at a hatchery for the olive ridley sea turtles on Elliot’s Bea...

ओडिशाखबरनामाघटनाएं

Olive ridley wave sweeps Odisha’s Gahirmatha beach

AWARA MUSAFIR BUREAU

March 27, 2022903 Views

Lakhs of olive ridley turtles have begun crowding the tranquil Gahirmatha beach in Odisha, as part of their annual journey to lay eggs, presenting a rare natural phenomenon and a breathtaking sight, officials said. The Gahirmatha beach is widely regarded as the world's largest-known nesting ground of these reptiles. Apart from Gahirmatha, the turtles also arrive at the Rushikulya and Devi river mouths for mass nesting, they said. Around 2.45 lakh female turtles crawled onto the seashore to dig pits with flippers on Friday, Rajnagar Mangrove (Wildlife) Divisional Forest Officer J D Pati said. "The arrival of so many turtles is a refreshing development and this is probably the largest congregation at the nesting beach in a single day," Pati said. "We're expecting a large con...