Save the Olive Ridley Sea Turtle
The beaches of Orissa, India is home to one of the natural wonders of the world. Every year, between November and May, hundreds of thousands of Olive Ridley turtles congregate and mate in the coastal waters, before the females struggle up the beach in their tens of thousands to nest en masse, a rare phenomenon called the arribada (Spanish for arrival). The Olive Ridley turtle is famous for this mass nesting behaviour (explanation: the Kemps ridley also exhibits mass nesting behaviour) and Orissa is one of only three places in the world where it happens.
But over the last decade instead of the beaches bringing life and a new generation of turtles, the beaches have become a mass graveyard, with over 100,000 washed ashore, dead. They are victims of illegal fishing in no take zones and the thousands that die every year are just a fraction of the total, as most are not washed ashore. Industrial development and mega projects that are in the pipeline, particularly large ports, pose another danger to the turtles and their nesting beaches, threatening the very existence of this ecological marvel.
In 2006, the Year of the Turtle, Greenpeace has established the Turtle Witness Camp in the Devi region, a former mass-nesting site, bearing witness to the magic and fragility of an entire Olive Ridley season.
Join us in our campaign to protect the Olive Ridleys of Orissa.
Provide your details below and help us tell the Prime Minister of India to take action to protect the endangered Olive Ridleys Turtles:
http://prefs.greenpeace.org/mail-links/clicks/20057.2475012.5409
But over the last decade instead of the beaches bringing life and a new generation of turtles, the beaches have become a mass graveyard, with over 100,000 washed ashore, dead. They are victims of illegal fishing in no take zones and the thousands that die every year are just a fraction of the total, as most are not washed ashore. Industrial development and mega projects that are in the pipeline, particularly large ports, pose another danger to the turtles and their nesting beaches, threatening the very existence of this ecological marvel.
In 2006, the Year of the Turtle, Greenpeace has established the Turtle Witness Camp in the Devi region, a former mass-nesting site, bearing witness to the magic and fragility of an entire Olive Ridley season.
Join us in our campaign to protect the Olive Ridleys of Orissa.
Provide your details below and help us tell the Prime Minister of India to take action to protect the endangered Olive Ridleys Turtles:
http://prefs.greenpeace.org/mail-links/clicks/20057.2475012.5409
rudkla - 28. Apr, 22:41
