Amidst Lockdown 8 Lakh Olive Ridley Turtles Return to Odisha Coast

Nature at play!

Due to the nationwide lockdown because of the coronavirus outbreak, the citizens have restricted movements outside their homes. As we already know, the earth is healing itself during this lockdown, the sky is clearer, the weather is getting better, stray animals and aquatic animals are coming back to their habitat. The endangered Olive Ridleys too have returned to Odisha’s Gahirmatha beach and the rookeries in Rushikulya, for mass nesting as there is no human and tourist intrusion due to the lockdown.

The lockdown has now ensured no disturbances for the Olive Ridley Turtles #Odisha pic.twitter.com/ICj9xVJTwY

— Soumyajit Pattnaik (@soumyajitt) March 25, 2020