More than 1,100 dead sea turtles washed up along southern India’s coastline

<p>The mass death of once-endangered olive ridley turtles in January has prompted an increase in wildlife patrols and a crackdown on fishing boats</p><p>More than 1,100 dead olive ridley sea turtles have washed ashore on the beaches of Tamil Nadu state in southern India this January.</p><p>“I never heard [of] such large numbers of turtles stranded at any beaches of Tamil Nadu at least in the last three decades,” Kuppusamy Sivakumar, an ecology professor at Pondicherry University said.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/feb/10/more-than-1100-dead-olive-ridley-sea-turtles-washed-up-along-southern-india-coastline-aoe">Continue reading...</a>