(7 Apr 2025)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Chennai, India – 14 March 2025
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1. Various of volunteers and forest department officials walking around a beach in Chennai looking for sea turtle nests containing eggs
2. Volunteers and forest department officials using torches as they search for sea turtle nests containing eggs
3. A stray dog pulls on a dead turtle
4. Volunteers looking at the dead turtle with a torch
5. Close of a dead turtle
6. Various of a volunteer using a probe to look for sea turtle eggs in a nest in the sand
7. Various of a volunteer taking out eggs, putting them in a bag
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Chennai, India – 31 March 2025
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8. SOUNDBITE (English) Kadambari Aravindan, volunteer:
“So we have something called a probe, it’s a metal pipe which is hollow, and we poke around the clearing, wherever the probe descends the fastest is where we identify the nests, after that we will dig up the nests, we will collect eggs in a cloth bag.”
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Chennai, India – 14 March 2025
9. A volunteer walking away after collecting turtle eggs
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Chennai, India – 31 March 2025
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10. SOUNDBITE (English) Kadambari Aravindan, volunteer:
“We collect the eggs that Olive Ridleys (type of turtle) lay along the shore of Chennai and relocate them to the hatchery behind us.”
11. Pan from the bamboo covered hatchery to the sea (Bay of Bengal)
12. Visitors looking through bamboo partition of the hatchery
13. Various of volunteers and forest officials collecting hatchlings to put them back in the sea
14. SOUNDBITE (English) Kadambari Aravindan, volunteer:
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“Over here at the hatchery we then try to mimic as much as possible the original nest. The original nest we may not be able to mimic centimeter to centimeter but as much as possible. So, we will also dig up a nest and then a chamber then we will relocate the eggs, cover it and then we will wait for 45 days.”
15. Kadambari explaining the hatching process to visitors on the beach
16. SOUNDBITE (English) Yajur Karthik, volunteer from Bengaluru:
“I come just these two months in my summer holidays to work for this (to protect sea turtles). So, there are many works like maintaining the crowd and then excavating the eggs.”
17. Close of the sea turtle hatchlings in a bucket
18. Hatchlings crawling towards the sea from the beach
19. Visitors watching the release of hatchlings
20. Hatchlings crawl into the Bay of Bengal
STORYLINE:
For nearly four decades, residents in southern India’s coastal city of Chennai have patrolled moonlit beaches at night trying to protect sea turtles and their hatchlings that for millennia have nested along these shores.
Hungry dogs, locals looking for a snack, and disorienting lights are among the hazards facing the Olive Ridley turtles and their eggs, which can take up to 60 days to hatch.
Many turtles are caught offshore in fishing nets, which this year alone have killed hundreds of them in the area.
Nonetheless, local residents have collected and helped to protect more than 260,000 turtle eggs this year in Chennai, the capital of India’s Tamil Nadu state.
Patrollers scan the beaches looking for turtles nesting or small sand mounds that might indicate eggs are buried underneath.
When they find a cache of eggs, they transport them to a protected area and rebury them at the same depth as they were initially found.
This is crucial since temperatures affect what sex the turtles will be.
AP video by Mahesh Kumar
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