Goa, Dec. 28 -- As another year draws to a close, the tide leaves behind a familiar and unsettling testimony. Along Goa's beaches, scenes that once felt exceptional have become disturbingly routine - a dolphin lying motionless near the waterline, a turtle struggling to breathe, a seabird too weak to fly. These encounters, unfolding in full public view, have quietly marked the passage of the year, turning the shoreline itself into a record of mounting stress in the sea.

What is striking is not just that these strandings are happening, but that they keep happening - across locations, across months, and across species.

Over the past year, marine wildlife strandings have been reported along the length of Goa's coastline, from heavily visite...