OLIVE RIDLEYS
A well known critically endangered species of the world. A really beautiful creation of mother earth. It is a species of sea turtle which are very small, about 60cm* in length and weighing 40kg* (*average). They've been a vulnerable species for years yet people tend to protect them in vain.
Orissa, India, is known to have been the world's largest Olive Ridley nesting site. Every year, between December and April, thousands of Olive Ridleys emerge from the Bay of Bengal for mass nesting, known as the Arribada.
A recent data released by the state's Forest and Wildlife department reveals a sharp decline in the number of Olive Ridleys in the last decade. In recent times, some historical arribada sites have only recorded intermittent nesting. Beach erosion caused some turtles to nest in a fishing village this year.
The Olive Ridleys have been declared vulnerable by the IUCN. Nature plays its role in keeping the population of the Ridleys under control by many ways. Some of them are given below.
Birds and other creatures
These are the creatures of nature expected to control the population of the Olive Ridleys. But there also is an unexpected intruder in the nature's cycle. The HUMANS
Poaching for turtle shell, fancy items made of it, eggs of the turtles in large scale has brought the species to near extinction which is very near
Though many are busy destroying these vulnerable species, some busy not caring for other creatures of nature, few have come up with their effort to save the creatures by their own ways, atleast to create awareness among people. Youths of Fishing villages have got a high hand at this context by creating awareness among their people.
A Puducherry-based NGO's (Pudhuvai Samadhana Pura) efforts to protect the turtle species have borne fruit with 110 hatchlings being let into the sea on April 6 this yea, at Pudhukuppam, a fishing village of Puducherry, said Muthu, the Convenor of the NGO to the PTI.
Fishermen have raised their hands to protect nature. Where are we? Share this among your friends so that they may know that there's a species going towards extinction.
A well known critically endangered species of the world. A really beautiful creation of mother earth. It is a species of sea turtle which are very small, about 60cm* in length and weighing 40kg* (*average). They've been a vulnerable species for years yet people tend to protect them in vain.
Orissa, India, is known to have been the world's largest Olive Ridley nesting site. Every year, between December and April, thousands of Olive Ridleys emerge from the Bay of Bengal for mass nesting, known as the Arribada.
A recent data released by the state's Forest and Wildlife department reveals a sharp decline in the number of Olive Ridleys in the last decade. In recent times, some historical arribada sites have only recorded intermittent nesting. Beach erosion caused some turtles to nest in a fishing village this year.
The Olive Ridleys have been declared vulnerable by the IUCN. Nature plays its role in keeping the population of the Ridleys under control by many ways. Some of them are given below.
Birds and other creatures
Poaching for turtle shell, fancy items made of it, eggs of the turtles in large scale has brought the species to near extinction which is very near
Though many are busy destroying these vulnerable species, some busy not caring for other creatures of nature, few have come up with their effort to save the creatures by their own ways, atleast to create awareness among people. Youths of Fishing villages have got a high hand at this context by creating awareness among their people.
A Puducherry-based NGO's (Pudhuvai Samadhana Pura) efforts to protect the turtle species have borne fruit with 110 hatchlings being let into the sea on April 6 this yea, at Pudhukuppam, a fishing village of Puducherry, said Muthu, the Convenor of the NGO to the PTI.
Fishermen have raised their hands to protect nature. Where are we? Share this among your friends so that they may know that there's a species going towards extinction.
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