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News - Turtles

More than 40,000 square miles protected for Pacific Leatherback sea turtles

Saturday, 21 January 2012 08:57

The National Marine Fisheries Service finalized protection of 40,000 square miles of protected critical ocean habitat off the shores of Washington, Oregon and California today for the endangered Pacific leatherback sea turtle. The final rule establishes critical habitat in areas where leatherbacks feed on jellyfish after swimming 6,000 miles across the ocean from nests in Indonesia. This is the first pe…

Climate change impact may force olive ridley turtles to abandon Odisha beaches for mass nesting

Monday, 02 January 2012 06:56

"Higher degree of erosion at many points of Odisha's coastline poses serious threat to the routine activities of marine turtles and raises doubts about the continuity of the tradition of mass nesting by the Olive Ridley marine turtles called ‘Arribada’. The nesting grounds are being squeezed alarmingly and the coastal vegetation that plays a vital role in providing food to lakhs of mother turtles and their hatc…

Olive Ridley turtles fall prey to trawlers

Saturday, 03 December 2011 14:30
In an alarming development, carcasses of Olive Ridley turtles have started appearing in large numbers close to the coastline of the Rushikulya rookery in Ganjam district of Odisha. Fishermen from the Gokharkuda and Nulia Nuagoan villages attributed the phenomenon to unchecked activity of fishing trawlers in the area...

Calls for action on traditional turtle hunting after tourists witness slaughter on Green Island

Friday, 11 November 2011 17:00

Tourists have watched on in horror as turtles have been slaughtered in a popular holiday location in the Far North. Tourism operators are now calling for increased public debate about the traditional hunting of green sea turtles and dugongs and are seeking a ban on the practice in key tourist locations. They said killings happened often enough to distress visitors and send the wrong message around the world....

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