World Sea Turtle Day 2021: Seven reasons why marine turtles deserve their own day

From historic trade to modern tourism, as ecosystem engineers and biological transporters, sea turtles are an important part of the lives of …

Another species extinct: This time the Yangtze giant soft shell turtle

The last surviving female dies in a Chinese zoo

Odisha takes its first step towards promoting turtle tourism

The state held its first Olive Ridley turtle festival to give way to eco-tourism and in turn conserve turtles

Turtle smuggling continues: Forest officials seize 40 turtles from Odisha’s Malkangiri

Forest officials had seized 150 live freshwater turtles from a village in Malkangiri district June 4

DTE Impact: Kendrapara SP appears before Orissa High Court in forest guard assault case

DTE had reported on 6 forest guards being attacked in the area by fishermen, in violation of a fishing ban

Female turtle returns to Maldivian atoll to lay eggs, finds runway instead

The turtle laid her eggs on the runway of Maafaru airport itself, on Noonu Atoll

Turtles threatened

Olive Ridley turtles: Endangered lives

Olive Ridley hatchlings run the gauntlet at Gahirmatha Sanctuary

Millions of newborn turtles started their journey from nests to the sea April 25, 2021 at the marine sanctuary in Odisha

DTE Impact: Orissa HC panel on Olive Ridleys stress on biodiversity, community welfare

The committee acknowledged the sea turtles continue to face threats from fishery-related mortality and coastal development in Odisha  

Mass-nesting of turtles begins at Odisha’s Gahirmatha

Around 5,000 Olive Ridley sea turtles came ashore for mass-nesting at the Nasi-1 and Nasi-2 islands on March 9 night

At least 800 Olive Ridleys dead in Odisha since January

Illegal fishing near Gahirmatha marine sanctuary; turtles get caught in fishing nets, plastic and polythene 

Reptile theory turns turtle

The reproductive behaviour of a turtle species overturns a theory that held that reptiles always lay eggs on land

India’s turtle researchers oppose development plans for Little Andaman, Great Nicobar islands

The islands have global significance for global Leatherback turtle conservation and are also home to indigenous peoples like the Onge and the Shompen

Marine turtles tagged in Odisha after nearly two decades

The forest department plans to tag 30,000 turtles in Odisha this year during the nesting season

A matter of timing

Film review: The turtle people

The Turtle People is ostensibly about a fishing community in village Kolavipalayam, Kerala, that help Olive Ridley turtles. Sea turtles are an …

Space crunch for Olive Ridleys

Turned turtle

Turning the turtle's fate

MEXICO

The anatomy of a ban

MEXICO

Film review: Massacre of the innocents

The Killing Fields: Orissa's Appalling Turtle Crisis, produced by Shekar Dattatri

Holding out the olive branch