Over 400 endangered sea turtles have washed ashore on India’s east coast near the city of Chennai in the last two weeks in an event not witnessed in over two decades. Olive ridley turtles travel thousands of miles for ideal nesting conditions on India’s coast.
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Krishnan is also concerned about the low number of turtles nesting on shore. He and other conservationists walk along the city’s beaches at night to collect and transfer turtle nests so the eggs are not vandalized by beach-goers or eaten by dogs. “We have found only four nests so far, which is also really worrying,” he said.Environmentalists and forest department officials have been seeing at least ten dead turtles every day for the past few days, sometimes much more.
A local government order was also implemented in 2016 to stop trawl boats from casting giant nets that sweep up everything on the ocean floor from getting within five nautical miles of the coastline during turtle nesting season. The law also mandates devices known as turtle excluder devices, that can help turtles escape nets.
Over 500,000 turtles nest every year in beaches further up India’s east coast in Odisha state — a mass nesting phenomenon that turtle conservationists call Arribada. But only one in about 1,000 turtle hatchlings survive to adulthood.
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