The department had received reports of turtle carcasses being washed ashore, Divisional Forest Officer, Rajnagar Mangrove Forest (Wildlife) Division, Bimal Prasanna Acharya said.
Several measures have been taken on a war footing to arrest the mortality rate ahead of the mass nesting of the endangered marine species, the DFO said.
Female turtles are expected to crawl into the beach for laying eggs en masse very shortly. The death of turtles at this stage does not augur well for mass nesting, said conservationist Bijoy Kumar Kabi.
The carcasses were spotted scattered along a one kilometre stretch on the shoreline.
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