Habitats that could save threatened loggerhead sea turtles from extinction were identified on Friday by the U.S. government along 750 miles of Atlantic and Gulf Coast shoreline in six states.

The giant Pacific leatherback turtle, known for its arduous 6,000-mile ocean trek from the U.S.

KANPUR: It is the time of the year when hundreds of turtles make their way to the banks of Yamuna to lay their eggs.

Scientists have sounded the alarm over the mounting threat to marine turtle populations worldwide from climate change and coastal development.

Jamnagar: Large number of birds and fishes were found dead in Lakhota lake in the city on Friday. According to sources, besides nearly 40 birds, fishes, a snake and turtles have also died.

While the exact reason for their deaths is not immediately known, it is suspected that they died after consuming something poisonous.
The birds found dead included pelicans, spotbilled ducks, coots among others. Interestingly, it was only after TOI called up forest department that their staff rushed to the spot.

Unprecedented level of deaths reported this season

It is a cause for concern that sea turtles or green turtles are facing extinction to an unprecedented level at the peak of the breeding season in Tamil Nadu. In the past two months several hundred carcasses of the adult green turtles have been found littered along the coastline in the State. That this endangered has found a place in the Red List speaks volumes about its inevitable role in preserving ecology, according to S. Murugan of the Centre of Advanced Study in Marine Biology of Annamalai University.

50% DROP IN OLIVE RIDLEY NESTS ALONG KONKAN COASTLINE

Pune: Industrial activity around coastal areas has cast its shadow on the nesting season of the endangered Olive Ridley turtle this year. There has been a disturbing 50 % drop in the total number of nests along the coastline in Raigad, Ratnagiri and Sindhudurg districts and experts hope the activity would pick up before the nesting season ends in March. Those working in this region and in the field of turtle conservation have counted 36 Olive Ridley nests along the coastline of the three districts. They say that large scale development in the vicinity of ecologically critical coastal areas and sea pollution are largely responsible for the drop in numbers this year.

The Gujarat government will draw up an action plan on wildlife conservation in association with International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN).

Some months ago, a woman was caught with a tiger cub in her bag at the Bangkok Airport. She had put the sedated cub in her bag along with a few stuffed toy tigers.

Berhampur: Around 150 carcasses of Olive Ridley turtles have been washed ashore near the Rushikulya river mouth in Ganjam district, a major mass nesting site of the endangered species, in the last one month. Forest officials found at least eight dead turtles on Monday.

"Most of the carcasses were found in decomposed state. We suspected these were washed ashore to Ganjam coast from Astaranga area in Puri district, where a number of turtles were found dead recently," said divisional forest officer, (DFO) Berhampur, S S Mishra.