How do you feel about the protection and conversation project undertaken in Maharashtra?
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Coast followed by Green turtle (Chelonia mydas). To overcome these problems SNM decided to undertake actual protection work and on 02 October 2002 started marine turtle conservation work, for the first time in Maharashtra.
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Marine Turtle Conservation in Maharashtra (2002 to 2006)
Sahyadri Nisarga Mitra (SNM) started Marine turtle conservation first time in Maharashtra. In the year 2002 SNM started actual protection work for Olive Ridley (Lepidochelys olivacea) in Velas, a tiny village on northernmost boundary of district Ratnagiri. In the first year SNM undertook protection work in one village and successfully protected 50 nests. Within a short span of time SNM spread the protection work to entire coast of Maharashtra state, that's about 720 kms of coastline in all. In the forth year of the project we arranged protection work in 15 villages, but found only 36 nests against 50 in a village. These figures themselves can prove that the marine turtle is crossing the upper limits of its presently endangered status very rapidly...
SNM is trying its level best to