128 Olive Ridely Sea turtle eggs collected near Rameswaram

As many as 128 eggs of Olive Ridely Sea turtles, an endangered species, were today collected by the Forest officials in the sea shore near Mandapam here and kept in a hatchery.

The eggs were collected from Arichalmunai under the Mandapam Wild Life Range, an official release said.

This was the first collection of the Olive Ridley Sea turtle eggs in the sea shore stretch here in the current nesting season, it said.