In Rushikulya Rookery.One of the landmark mass nesting sites of Olive Ridley Turtles(lepidochelys olivacea).This year 2,12,000 Turtles visited Gokharkuda & Podampeta Coast.Was part of the TAG(Turtle Action Group),interacting/conducting training-with local community groups - who are monitoring the nesting population and also assisting in release of hatchlings during mass hatching along the Rushilulya Sea mouth coast.This years,nesting took place from March 3-10 and still(as on today) thousands of hatchlings are being resuced to sea.
28th APRIL 2011
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