Tag: Turtles

Make summer of 2023 epic with The Residence by Cenizaro

Take a luxurious trip to the Indian Ocean this summer and have the vacation of your dreams there.

April 24, 2023

Coast Guard launches ‘Operation Oliva’ to save turtles in Odisha

The coast guard has organised interactive sessions with the marine fishermen communities to sensitize them on the pros and cons of legal embargo on fishing during ridleys’ nesting season.

December 21, 2022

Study probes turtles’ survival years after oil spil

Unlike mammals and birds, which normally die after a few weeks, northern map turtles, which can live up to 60 years, can survive after being oiled for months.

September 28, 2022

Creative art work spreads awareness on plastic menace

The gorgeous art work made from layered plastics by Delhi-based artist Manveer Singh was a collage of 250 small turtles of the waste plastic with a message on the ever increasing level of plastics in the sea water.

November 25, 2021

Olive ridley turtles return to Odisha beach for nesting

To ensure the safety of turtle eggs, 600 metre net barricade has been installed along the casiruanna forest cover, that is lying close to nesting ground. Wildlife staffs are on the round-the-clock vigil to keep the predators like jackals, hyena and wild dogs at bay.

March 12, 2021

Lakhs of baby turtles buried alive as squall hits Gahirmatha

The large-scale deaths of hatchlings is a setback for the turtle conservation programme as one out of a 1,000 survives to grow into an adult turtle

May 1, 2018

Olive Ridley turtles return to Mumbai’s Versova beach after 20 years

In a good news to keep you smiling all day long, the Olive Ridley turtles seem to have found one beach clean enough to nest, with around 80 hatchlings making their way to the Arabian Sea on Thursday. A group of volunteers engaged in a clean-up of the Versova beach stumbled upon the sight of...

March 23, 2018

Turtles invade beach for mass nesting

Olive Ridley sea turtles have appeared on the tranquil nesting grounds of Gahirmatha, regarded as World’s largest rookery of these species, for mass nesting. Nearly one lakh female turtles have so far turned up at the beach since past 24 hours. The marine animals virtually invaded the beach and dug out nests to laid eggs....

March 10, 2018

Eating soft shelled turtles may spread cholera

Seafood lovers, take note! Consuming soft shelled turtles may spread cholera – a life- threatening diarrhoeal disease, a new Chinese study warns. A pathogen called Vibrio cholerae can colonise the surfaces, as well as the intestines of soft shelled turtles, researchers said. Researchers from Chinese Centre for Disease Control and Prevention inserted the genes producing...

June 11, 2017