ZSI starts tagging olive ridleys to track migration path
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The Zoological Survey of India has began tagging endangered olive ridleys to track their migration path within the off-shore waters of Odisha on Tuesday.
The ZSI scientists took six turtles floating within the deep water of the Bay of Bengal and hooked up the tags made from aluminum earlier than releasing them again within the sea.
“Tags were attached to six including four female and two male turtles. Basic information such as their weight and length was recorded by the researchers,” mentioned Amlan Nayak, Divisional Forest Officer of Berhampur.
Mr. Nayak mentioned the ZSI would tag 30,000 turtles to know the place they arrive from and go to.
The Rushikulya seashore is likely one of the largest mass nesting websites for sea turtles the place 3,23,062 had been enumerated final yr.
Currently, the turtles are mating within the Bay of Bengal. They would come to the seashore to lay eggs in February.
Lakhs of endangered turtles congregate for mass nesting alongside the Odisha coast together with the Gahirmatha Marine Sanctuary, the Rushikulya river mouth and the Devi river mouth yearly.
The Wildlife Institute of India (WII) had final performed an identical research in 2007-2010 to know the migration path. The research was then carried out to know their motion in sea in order that the world might be averted for hydrocarbon exploration.
As per the WII research, the olive ridleys, which had then come to Odisha seashores for mass nesting, had been discovered on the shores of Sri Lanka and even the Andaman islands.
Recently, the State authorities had requested the WII to conduct a contemporary research for figuring out the migration path.
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