Olive ridley turtles invade Odisha’s Gahirmatha beach for mass nesting

Close on the heels of record turnout of Olive Ridley turtles at Odisha’s Rushikulya river mouth nesting beach, the endangered marine animals have turned up at the Gahirmatha beach, world’s largest known rookery of these species, for mass nesting, a phenomenon otherwise described as ‘arribada’ (a Spanish term) for the past 24 hours.