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15 Mar 2010	Olive Ridley turtles begin nesting at second Orissa beach Thousands of Olive Ridley turtles crawled ashore from the Bay of Bengal Monday, after a month’s delay, at the Rushikulya beach in Orissa’s Ganjam district to lay their eggs.
13 Mar 2010	Konkan Turtle Festival draws domestic, foreign tourists The second Konkan Turtle Festival-2010 has got off to a flying start with over 375 Olive Ridley turtles released in the Arabian Sea during the past four days.
13 Mar 2010	East Java fishermen arrested for possessing explosives Policemen in the East Java island of Madura arrested three fishermen for possessing home-made explosives, suspected to be used for blast fishing.
13 Mar 2010	India: Green turtle rescued from poachers The CSG-CID wing of the district police and the forest officers of the Gulf of Mannar Biosphere on Thursday recovered a green turtle from poachers in Thoothukudi.
12 Mar 2010	India: Up to 67 Olive Ridley turtles let into sea As many as 67 Olive ridley turtles, hatched in the artificial hatchery run by the forest department at Kodiakarai, were let into the sea.
11 Mar 2010	Philippines: Coral reefs face new El Niño threat An international conservation group warned that the current El Niño episode may have adverse effects on the recovering coral reefs in the Philippines.
11 Mar 2010	Suit launched to challenge finance for foreign LNG project Environement groups have intended to sue the federal agency for financing an LNG project in Papua New Guinea without analyzing the project’s environmental impacts.
10 Mar 2010	Australia: Turtle Month helps Loggerhead research A research project to track endangered loggerhead turtles nesting at Mon Repos Conservation Park will get a boost this month from customers at McDonalds’ restaurants in Bundaberg.
10 Mar 2010	Church joins villagers in opposing mega steel plant The Catholic Church has declared to stand by the villagers opposed to the setting up of the Rs 50,000 crore mega steel venture near Paradip in Orissa.
10 Mar 2010	Malaysian turtles face extinction: WWF Conservationists warned Wednesday that Malaysians’ voracious appetite for turtle eggs could drive the marine creatures to extinction on its shores.
10 Mar 2010	Philippines: Marinduque seeks ‘pawikan’ habitat Frequent sightings and efforts to rescue sea turtles in Marinduque have prompted local environment officials and advocates to have the island-province declared a critical habitat.
10 Mar 2010	U.S. moves to list loggerhead turtles as endangered The National Marine Fisheries Service and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service proposed a rule that would list seven distinct loggerhead populations as endangered.
9 Mar 2010	India: Tata Steel takes CSR to the silver screen ‘Hello Zindagi’, a movie venture supported by Tata Steel and Dhamra Port Company Ltd highlights the sensitive issue of the conservation of Olive Ridley turtles in the story.
9 Mar 2010	First hawksbill turtle eggs of season in UAE sanctuary The first turtle eggs of the season have been laid by a hawksbill turtle who made her way to a protected beach in Dubai.
8 Mar 2010	Olive Ridley gets first-ever satellite telemetry tagging Sea turtle conservation along the Tamil Nadu coast received a fillip with the first-ever satellite telemetry tagging of an adult female Olive Ridley.

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