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Turtles at Chilika LagoonRushikulya Sea Turtle RookeryThe mass nesting beach at Rushikulya is located along the southern Orissa coast of Ganjam District. It spreads over six Km stretching from the coastline in front of village Purunabandh (one Km north of Rushikulya river mouth) to the beach in front of Kantiagada village. The nesting beach is much wide, ore or less flat with scattered sand dunes of 1 – 2 m high. The average beach width is about 100 m from near the high tide line, though at some places the width of the beach is more than 100 m. About 2,00,000 turtles estimated to have nested in this rookery in the arribada of March, 1994. In subsequent years there was a decline in the number of turtles nesting at this rookery (1994-95: 60,000; 1995-96: 1,18,000; 1996-97: 25,000; 1997-98: 8,500). There was no mass nesting in this rookery during 1998-99 ,1999-2000 and 2002. However, a total of 1.59 lakh turtles came to the Rushikulya rookery during the first mass nesting period of 2000-01. The first mass nesting at this rookery continued over a 7 days period starting from 26th February to 4th March 2001 |
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