Bhubaneswar, Feb. 23 -- Over 641,000 Olive Ridley sea turtles have laid eggs at the Rushikulya rookery in Ganjam district of Odisha in this ongoing nesting season, surpassing the previous record of 637,000 turtles in the 2022-23 season, officials said on Saturday.
By the time the nesting season, locally known as arribada, ends in the first week of March, the number of turtles is expected to go up to 700,000 at the Rushikulya sea beach between Podampeta to Bateshwar, Prem Kumar Jha, principal chief conservator of forests (wildlife) of Odisha, said.
The turtles lay their around 100 eggs in a foot-and-a-half-deep sand pits. P2
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