S., Sivakumar and Manakadan, Ranjit and David, Patrick (2011) Nesting surveys of olive ridley turtles (Lepidochelys olivacea) along the beaches of Sriharikota Island, Andhra Pradesh, India. Indian Ocean Turtle Newsletter (14). pp. 12-14. ISSN 0973-1695
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Among the five species of marine turtles found in Indian waters, all except the loggerhead turtle Caretta caretta have been reported from the state of Andhra Pradesh (Tripathy et al., 2003). The olive ridley turtle (Lepidochelys olivacea) is the most common marine turtle nesting along the Indian coast. The mass nesting beaches of the species in India are at Gahirmatha (>100,000), Devi river mouth and Rushikulya (>10,000 in each site) in Orissa (Tripathy et al. 2003; Shanker et al., 2004). The coasts of Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu have been subject to surveys (Bhupathy & Saravanan, 2002; Tripathy et al., 2003) to determine its breeding status along this stretch. However, the stretch of 56 km nesting beach of Sriharikota Island, the spaceport of India, was not covered by these surveys due to the island’s protected status. We could partly fill this lacuna due to a 6-year (2001-2007) faunal diversity project funded by the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO).
| Item Type: | Articles |
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| Keywords: | India, Andhra Pradesh, Nesting, Turtle, Beach, Tamil Nadu, Surveys |
| Subjects: | Right to Resources |
| Depositing User: | Varsha V icsf |
| Date Deposited: | 12 May 2022 04:39 |
| Last Modified: | 12 May 2022 04:39 |
| URI: | http://icsfarchives.net/id/eprint/14021 |
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