By Maya khosla | May 31, 2012 | Maya Khosla, Odisha
It is a few minutes past 7:00 a.m. on April 24, 2012. After an all-night patrol for sea turtles along Devi Beach, Sovakar Behera walks purposefully through a Casuarina grove, towards the not-too-distant boom of waves. Rita Banerji and I follow him out of the man-made...
By Kartik Shanker | May 22, 2012 | Kartik Shanker
One million nests a year at La Escobilla in Mexico. Compared to ridley nesting beaches on the west coast of India or the east coast of Africa that get 10 nests per year, that number sounds astronomical. Or for that matter, when compared to the much touted mass nesting...
By Mathew H. Godfrey | May 8, 2012 | Matthew H. Godfrey, North Carolina
As in most cases, it started with a phone call. Somebody saw a sea turtle, washed up on some rocks along a town creek near the ocean. This time, the location is close: just down the street from my home, so it takes only five minutes to get to the turtle spot....
By Ema Fatima | May 2, 2012 | Ema Fatima, Odisha
After ceaseless attempts for three successive years, I finally made it just on the day of peak mass hatching this year. In 2010, I left for Rushikulya as soon as I got the news that mass hatching event had started, trying my luck to visualize this epic event in my...
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