Olive Ridley mating season begins: What makes Odisha coasts a turtle magnet
Lakhs of Olive Ridley turtles have begun congregating off the Odisha coast, heralding the start of one of the planet’s most spectacular wildlife events, the annual mass nesting, or arribada, along the Bay of Bengal. Each year between January and March, Odisha’s beaches at Gahirmatha, Rushikulya and the Devi river mouth turn into vast, living…