Bhubaneswar, April 25 -- Have the endangered olive ridley turtles skipped their annual visit for mass nesting to Gahirmatha coast this year? Has the rapidly fragmented and steep beach anything to do with the Olive ridleys playing truant? Did the trawl fishing and human interference affect their privacy? Or is it global warming and climatic change?These pertinent points have come under sharp focus even as there are no signs of arribada, a Spanish term that describes the unique natural heritage of millions of these marine species converging on the nesting ground in Gahirmatha in Odisha's Kendrapara for laying eggs.
Each year these turtles in millions of numbers used to turn up for laying eggs during January-March at World's largest-known roo...