Tag: Olive Ridley

Cuttack: A division bench of Orissa High Court on Tuesday asked the state government to enforce prohibition of fishing activities by trawlers near Devi river mouth in view of the ...

Puri: A 30-day cleanliness drive by a group of local youths at Astaranga beach in the district has found a place in Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s success story page of ...

Bhubaneswar: It’s the mass nesting season for Olive Ridley turtles in Odisha and the ongoing COVID-19 lockdown has allowed them to go about with it peacefully. According to the Forest ...

Long before the state government recognised the urgency of saving and preserving Olive Ridley turtles, a young man living in Puri’s Gundabala village started a one-man mission to protect them. ...

Rajnagar: Turtle lovers can rejoice, as mass nesting of Olive Ridleys has begun at their biggest nesting ground, Gahirmatha in Odisha’s Kendrapara district. Over 2.5 lakh Olive Ridley turtles laid ...

Bhubaneswar: Odisha is seeing a decline in the number of Olive Ridley sea turtle hatchlings in recent years. Fewer number of Olive Ridley nests were noticed in the coastal areas ...

Puri: Olive Ridley turtles have started laying eggs at Astaranga in Puri district and Forest Department officials rescued 136 Olive Ridley Turtles’ eggs near Keluni Muhana on Thursday. The eggs ...

Bhubaneswar: With the Olive Ridley sea turtles’ breeding season approaching, Odisha government has imposed a ban on sea fishing activity to protect the endangered marine animals. According to the sources, ...

Puri: The Forest Department on Monday released 542 Olive Ridley turtle hatchlings in the sea from the special hatcheries after one-and-half month. Sources said the Forest Department had located 650 ...

Rajnagar (Kendrapara): Much to the delight of the nature lovers, the mass nesting of the endangered Olive Ridley sea turtles along Gahirmatha coast this year in Odisha’s Kendrapara district has ...