Olive Riddley Conservation Programme:

♤ The conservation programme was resumed after 25 years by Forest Department of Tamil Nadu government.

♤ Under the programme , a hatchery has been set up at Besant Nagar.The eggs were collected and deposited in the hatchery. The new born from the hatched eggs were then released into the sea.

♤ Olive Ridley is one of the smallest sea turtles,found only in warmer waters, including the southern Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Oceans.

♤ These turtles are solitary, preferring the open ocean. They migrate hundreds or even thousands of miles every year, and come together as a group only once a year for the arribada, when females return to the beaches where they hatched and lumber onshore, sometimes in the thousands, to nest.