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Inter Press Service: A growing number of endangered olive ridley sea turtles have been getting killed in Eastern India’s coastal state Orissa by mechanized vessels defying a fishing ban on one of the world’s largest turtle sanctuaries, Gahirmatha.
While the government said "no more than 800" were killed since November last year, environmentalists counter that the casualty count of these tiny turtles is actually 5,000.
The problem illustrates the situation that confronts Orissa and other coastal states in India.......
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Fishers in Survival Battle With Turtles
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on February 25th, 2011
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