sea turtles
Yanadi Help Protect Turtles
The Yanadi of coastal Andhra Pradesh are monitoring the nests of the ocean-dwelling olive ridley turtles that come ashore to lay their eggs. The people are hoping their efforts will help protect the species from declining. A news story in The Hindu at the beginning of last week indicated that wildlife authorities are directing the […]
Yanadi Monitor Olive Ridley Turtles
Nearly 80 Yanadi are participating in a program of monitoring the safety of Olive Ridley turtle eggs until they hatch and the babies can safely enter the sea. The fishing people living on the coast of Andhra Pradesh were singled out last Thursday by a major Indian newspaper for protecting the eggs, which have been […]
Yanadi Help Protect Sea Turtles
Although olive ridley sea turtles are still fairly common globally, they are considered to be threatened because they have few secure nesting sites left in the world. At one of the nesting areas, the beaches of the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh along the Bay of Bengal, Yanadi fishermen have taken a strong interest in […]
