More than 1,100 sea turtles are dead in Oliv Ridley India In January.
“I have never heard [of] Coposami Sivakomar, a professor of ecology at the University of Bondishiri, said that such large numbers of turtles have been crossed on any beaches from Tamil Nadu at least in the past three decades, said Kobosami Sevakomar, Professor of Environmental Science at the University of Bondishiri.
Most of the washed turtles were found near the state capital, Chennai. Every year, Oliv Ridley Turtles (Lepidochelys OlivassiaGroup the coast of India to reproduce. Female turtles come to the beach to the beaches in which they hatch to lay their eggs, while males remain in the water. Sivakomar said that between 100 and 150 turtles on the shores of Chennai annually, so cutting more than 1,000 turtles is surprising.
Rajev Ray, a resident of Chennai, said that he had discovered about 80 dead turtles on a 2 km beach (1.24 miles) near his home. He said that the state’s forest administration, whose employees were buried, warned the bodies, although the burial is now backward.
A preliminary dissection of one body of the lung. Many dead turtles were swollen eyes. An environmental activist in Chennai said that both note indicate that turtles are likely to have died of suffocation and strangeness. The post -death report has not yet been published.
Avis said that he also noticed an unusually large number of male bodies on the beach.
The causes of collective deaths are unclear. However, Sevakomar said that male and female turtles could have been combined near the raming beaches to reproduce. If there is a net hunting in the area, the turtles, which need the surface to breathe, become intertwined and strange.
Sivakomar said that if this was the case, it was difficult to determine whether the turtles had fallen into hunting networks near Chennai or beyond that, then it ended up off Chennai because of the winds or currents.
Avis said that commercial fishing ships operating in Chennai waters are often not committed to local laws, which are likely to have contributed to deaths. Tamil Nadu, for example, ships ships were banned five miles (9 km) from the beach, but the law is not usually applied. Avis said that fishing networks must also have the installed turtle exclusion devices, but “fame, no one has.”
After the media coverage of the crisis, the government of Tamil Nadu 24 fishing boats caught It works illegally in the Chennai waters, creating a special business squad in response. The government said in a Release A joint periodic team is now watching boats and ships in the region.
“The night patrols have intensified to protect the missions.”
Avis said that the size of the deaths that were exposed to risk only once due to conservation efforts “exceed the individual’s ability to feel.” “You can stand on the coast now anywhere in Chennai and all a few steps, you can see swollen turtles to the horizon.”
This story was originally Posted by Mengabay
