Amazing video shows a seemingly endless stretch of beach near the Rushikulya River mouth in Odisha, India, and Olive Ridley turtles sprawled across the sand. According to Divisional Forest Officer ...

Over 700,000 Olive Ridley turtles descended upon Rushikulya beach in India's eastern Odisha state on Friday (February 21), a record number for this annual mass nesting event also known as Arribada ...

Bhubaneswar: The Rushikulya river mouth in Odisha’s Ganjam district witnessed an extraordinary natural phenomenon as record numbers of Olive Ridley sea turtles arrived for mass nesting.

Berhampur: Over 6.82 lakh Olive Ridley sea turtles laid eggs at the Rushikulya river mouth in the last seven days till Saturday, setting a new record in mass nesting of the endangered species.

Wildlife enthusiasts are thrilled as a record 6.5 lakh endangered Olive Ridley sea turtles have arrived at the Rushikulya beach in Odisha’s Ganjam district for mass nesting after a gap of two years.

Secretary of Rushikulya Sea Turtle Protection Committee, Rabindra Nath Sahu, said they have sighted the bar-headed geese in the area since many years during winter. Every year their number increased.

The mouth of the Rushikulya River in Odisha's Ganjam district has emerged as a major rookery for the endangered olive ridley turtles as they arrived at the coast for mass nesting. A record ...

Berhampur: The mouth of the Rushikulya River in Odisha's Ganjam district has emerged as a major rookery for the endangered olive ridley turtles with over 6.82 lakh such marine species assembling ...

BERHAMPUR: Nearly 90,000 Olive Ridley turtles have laid eggs at the Rushikulya rookery in Ganjam district in the last two days with 79,000 turtles nesting on Monday. The mass nesting along the 4 ...

The turtles skipped mass nesting at Rushikulya in 2015-16, 2018-19, 2020-21 and 2023-24 seasons, data from the forest department showed. Experts, however, could not ascribe a reason for this.

Around 2.2 lakh olive ridley sea turtles, an endangered species, nested in the four-km-long Rushikulya rookery in the last three days until Tuesday morning, forest officials said Turtle experts ...