Olive Ridley Turtles New life at Orissa Coastline

The Olive Ridley Turtle is the smallest of all marine turtles with adults measuring about 65 cm long and weighing 30-55 kg. It is widely distributed throughout the tropics.The largest nesting sites of this species are located along Bay of Bengal (Gahirmatha, Devi and Rushikulya) in eastern India and Costa Rica (Nancite and Ostional), and Mexico (La Escobilla) in the Pacifics (Valverde et al., 1998).
DPCL is constructing a deep water port on the coast to the north of the mouth of river Dhamra - some kilometres away from the mass nesting beach of Gahirmatha. This Dhamra port construction: a joint venture of Tata Steel and L&T has faced many challenges put up by the Greenpeace. As this NGO claims, dredging port activities is killing the Olive Ridley Turtles in Orissa. But true reports declare illegal fishing to be responsible for the large number of Olive Ridley Turtle casualties.

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• Ridley
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• Orissa
• Coastline