Olive Ridley turtle hatchlings releasedIt was their first sighting of the world on Friday. They have not seen the Sunlight soon after their birth, but the moonlight.
05 Mar, 2016, 07.59 PM IST
Students clean Odisha beach to facilitate mass nesting of turtlesSchoolchildren cleaned about 4km-long beach from Gokharakuda to Podampeta in Odisha - the famous mass nesting site for the endangered Olive...
15 Feb, 2016, 09.27 PM IST
77 Olive Ridley turtles let out into the seaA total of 77 Olive Ridley sea turtles, an endangered species, were let out into the sea near Dhanushkodi today, a forest department offici...
26 Apr, 2015, 05.42 PM IST
- High tide washes away Olive Ridley turtles eggs
Berhampur/ Hundreds of nests of endangered Olive Ridley turtles at Rushikulya and Gahirmatha rookeries were washed away in high tides durin...
23 Apr, 2015, 12.59 AM IST
Webcast of turtles’ mass nestingYou can watch the Olive Ridley turtles mass nesting on the sandy shores near the Rushikulya river mouth in Ganjam district at home without ...
14 Mar, 2015, 12.25 AM IST
- Decline in arrivals of olive ridley turtles in Goa raises concern
Goa may have received a large number of international and domestic tourists during the last season but its four beaches failed to attract t...
02 Aug, 2014, 11.22 PM IST
- Prawn hatchery threat for turtles in Ganjam
Wildlife campaigners are opposing alleged construction of a prawn hatchery near Rushikulya river mouth in Ganjam district as they apprehend...
10 Jun, 2014, 09.52 AM IST
- Prawn hatchery threat for turtles
Wildlife campaigners are opposing alleged construction of a prawn hatchery near Rushikulya river mouth in Ganjam district as they apprehend...
10 Jun, 2014, 09.40 AM IST
Over 4,400 Olive Ridley turtles let out into sea from hatcheryOver 4,400 Olive Ridley turtles, an endangered species, have been let out into the sea over the past three months from a government run hat...
22 May, 2014, 05.13 PM IST
Beach tourism, development killing turtles: WWFUnregulated tourism and development activity along beaches like Mandarmani and Digha in West Bengal is killing turtles including the vulner...
12 Aug, 2013, 12.16 PM IST
- Rare turtles released into sea
The forest department with the help of local wildlife conservationists released Olive Ridley Turtles and Green Sea Turtles into the sea nea...
14 Oct, 2012, 10.57 PM IST
- Baby olive ridley turtles let into sea
A Puducherry-based NGO's efforts to protect eggs of the endangered Olive Ridley sea turtles have borne fruit with 110 hatchlings being let ...
06 Apr, 2012, 03.06 PM IST
Olive Ridley turtles start laying eggs in Orissa beachOlive Ridley turtles have finally arrived at Gahirmatha beach in Orissa to lay eggs much to the delight of wildlife lovers and forest offic...
23 Mar, 2012, 01.08 PM IST
Olive Ridley turtles start mass nesting in OdishaSetting aside all speculations, the Olive Ridley sea turtles started their annual mass nesting near Rushikulya river mouth in Odisha's Ganj...
29 Feb, 2012, 08.14 PM IST
- 127 Ridley turtles let into sea from forest dept hatchery
A total of 127 Olive Ridley turtles, an endangered species bred in an artificial hatchery run by the forest department at nearby Kodiakarai...
06 Mar, 2011, 08.42 PM IST
- Oil spill cleaned at Rushikulya beach, no threat to Turtles
The authorities have been able to clean almost 100% of the furnace oil that leaked from a ship two km off the Gopalpur port in south Orissa...
15 Apr, 2010, 11.00 PM IST
- 1.8 lakh Olive Ridleys arrive on Orissa beach for nesting
An estimated 1.8 lakh female Olive Ridley turtles have so far arrived en-masse to lay eggs, a unique natural phenomenon, at Gahirmatha mari...
03 Mar, 2010, 07.27 PM IST