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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, including two in the Pacific, 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.
7 Mar 2010	Australia: Hatchlings head out Record numbers of baby turtles are making their way across the sand on Sunshine Coast beaches this year, with nest numbers well above those recorded in recent years.
6 Mar 2010	NZ helps bust illegal trade ring New Zealand officials have revealed their part in an international operation to fight the illegal trade in endangered wildlife.
6 Mar 2010	170,000 Olive Ridley turtles lay eggs in Orissa’s Gahirmatha At least 170,000 endangered female Olive Ridley turtles have laid their eggs in the protected Gahirmatha sanctuary, a famed nesting site in coastal Orissa, during the past 11 days.
5 Mar 2010	UAE: Race to save dying sea turtle Weak and dehydrated, a green sea turtle was rescued by the Emirates Marine Environmental Group (EMEG), and is now being monitored in an aquarium.
5 Mar 2010	UK poised to designate world’s largest marine reserve The Pew Environment Group praised the United Kingdom (U.K.) for taking one further step towards designating the world’s largest marine reserve.
4 Mar 2010	India: Where have all the turtles gone? Conservationists and wildlife experts are understandably worried about the massive decline in the mass nesting colonies of Olive Ridley turtles on India's west coast.
3 Mar 2010	Concern over delay in mass nesting of Oilve Ridley turtles Although there was a large congregation of Olive Ridley turtles in the sea near the Rushikulya rookery for mating, they are yet to come over to the beach for mass nesting.

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