{"id":69398,"date":"2025-02-10T14:00:09","date_gmt":"2025-02-10T05:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2025\/feb\/10\/more-than-1100-dead-olive-ridley-sea-turtles-washed-up-along-southern-india-coastline-aoe"},"modified":"2025-02-10T14:00:09","modified_gmt":"2025-02-10T05:00:09","slug":"more-than-1100-dead-sea-turtles-washed-up-along-southern-indias-coastline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=69398","title":{"rendered":"More than 1,100 dead sea turtles washed up along southern India\u2019s coastline"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The mass death of once-endangered olive ridley turtles in January has prompted an increase in wildlife patrols and a crackdown on fishing boats<\/p>\n<p>More than 1,100 dead olive ridley sea turtles have washed ashore on the beaches of Tamil Nadu state in southern India this January.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI never heard [of] such large numbers of turtles stranded at any beaches of Tamil Nadu at least in the last three decades,\u201d Kuppusamy Sivakumar, an ecology professor at Pondicherry University said.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2025\/feb\/10\/more-than-1100-dead-olive-ridley-sea-turtles-washed-up-along-southern-india-coastline-aoe\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The mass death of once-endangered olive ridley turtles in January has prompted an increase in wildlife patrols and a crackdown on fishing boatsMore than 1,100 dead olive ridley sea turtles have washed ashore on the beaches of Tamil Nadu state in southe&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4607,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[265,456,464,65,1019,62,468,467,61,94,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animals","category-conservation","category-endangered-species","category-environment","category-fishing","category-india","category-marine-life","category-oceans","category-south-and-central-asia","category-wildlife","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4607"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=69398"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69398\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69399,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69398\/revisions\/69399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}