Tag: turtle

Kendrapara: Odisha Forest department personnel have arrested 10 fishermen for trespassing into the prohibited Gahirmatha marine sanctuary in Kendrapara district, ...

Jharigaon: Forest department officials at Jharigaon in Odisha’s Nabarangpur district arrested four wildlife smugglers Friday night as they rescued 176 ...

Baliapal: Forest department staff released Monday hatchlings of 253 Olive Ridley turtles into the sea at Dagara under Baliapal block ...

Berhampur: The Odisha government has decided to set up a sea turtle research centre at Purunabandh in Ganjam district, an ...

Bhubaneswar: The state government urged the DRDO to restrict missile testing off the Odisha coast in February and March -- ...

Kendrapara/Berhampur: Odisha Forest personnel arrested nine sea-going fishermen on the charge of carrying out unlawful fishing activity in Gahirmatha marine ...

Balasore: Police have arrested two persons from Balasore district and seized 40 soft-shell turtles while being illegally transported, officials said. ...

Berhampur/Kendrapara: More than 10 lakh Olive Ridley turtles have crawled ashore this year to the two major mass nesting sites ...

Kendrapara: Wildlife officials are optimistic of convergence of lakhs of olive ridley turtles at the Gahirmatha beach nesting ground in ...

Kanpur: Nearly 1,878 endangered turtles have been seized and two men of Kashmiri origin arrested in the Chakeri area of ...