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Q138 (IAS/2002) Environment & Ecology › Biodiversity & Protected Areas › Marine conservation Answer Verified

The sea coast of which one of the following states has become famous as a nesting place for the giant Olive Ridley turtles from South America?

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The Odisha (formerly Orissa) coast on India’s east coast is internationally renowned for mass nesting (arribada) of Olive Ridley turtles. Government and conservation projects have long focused on Orissa because a significant proportion of the world’s Olive Ridley population migrates to India’s eastern coast to nest, with special emphasis on Orissa in conservation efforts [1]. Major rookeries on the Orissa coast — notably Gahirmatha, Rushikulya and the Devi river mouth — routinely host hundreds of thousands of nesting females in arribadas, with historical records of very large nesting numbers at Gahirmatha and recent mass nesting at Rushikulya and Gahirmatha documented by researchers and officials [3].

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  1. [1] Environment, Shankar IAS Acedemy .(ed 10th) > Chapter 16: Conservation Efforts > 16.9.1 Sea.Thrtle Project > p. 243
  2. [2] https://www.downtoearth.org.in/wildlife-biodiversity/happy-nesting-olive-ridley-turtles-swim-to-rushikulya-beach-in-record-numbers-for-arribada
  3. [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gahirmatha_Beach
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