A True Story of Sea Turtles
We were surveying the white bellied sea-eagles in
the summer that year. As we roomed the coasts, one of
the volunteers in our team saw some shallow pits with
white egg shells nearby Enquiries with the villagers
revealed that they were turtle eggs. This came as a
surprise. We had never come across turtle eggs in our
walks along the beaches of Konkan in all these years.
We decided to study this unusual occurrence further.
We learnt that the beach where we had found the egg
shells had been sealed to the public for nearly one
month, after people smuggling silver bricks were caught
in that area. But what we learnt further shocked us to
the core
Turtles nest along the entire coastline of our State.
There are a few people in every village who keep
combing the beach in the early hours of the morning,
throughout the year. When the female turtle comes
on shore to nest and to lay eggs, she
leaves behind a trail just like a track
of wheels on the sand. The egg hunters
follow this trail right up to the nest
which is about half a metre deep. They
dig up the nest, and steal all the 100-
150 eggs that are laid inside. These
eggs are then either eaten or are sold in
the market. If a turtle is spotted while
it is still laying eggs, it is allowed to live till the laying
is over. As soon as the eggs are laid, it is caught, and
then killed and eaten. This ruthless practice is observed
in all parts of the world. However, in India, sea turtles
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