Ocean Sentry
Climate change coupled with construction of sea walls and infrastructure activities are threatening the habitat of sea-turtles, an endangered marine species, along the Kerala coast, say conservationists.
The number of sea-turtles along the Kerala coast was fast dwindling in the last few years due to habitat destructions, poaching, marine debris and fishing activities, according to A Biju Kumar, conservationist and faculty member of Department of Aquatic Biology, Kerala University. With the “unscientific construction” of granite walls along seashores, turtles were being deprived of even a small slope in beaches to get to the sands for hatching, he said…. Read Full Article
