{"id":222780,"date":"2026-01-02T03:28:06","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T03:28:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/222780\/"},"modified":"2026-01-02T03:28:06","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T03:28:06","slug":"turtles-in-india-making-a-comeback-state-of-the-world-from-npr-npr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/222780\/","title":{"rendered":"Turtles in India Making a Comeback : State of the World from NPR : NPR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1767324486_148_.jpeg\" data-template=\"https:\/\/npr.brightspotcdn.com\/dims3\/default\/strip\/false\/crop\/5616x3744+0+0\/resize\/{width}\/quality\/{quality}\/format\/{format}\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F9b%2Feb%2F5743eda0499b8783a6c32834912e%2Fmg-7720.JPG\" class=\"img\" alt=\"Olive Ridley hatchlings are placed in a bucket after they were collected at a hatchery by volunteers. Volunteers collect turtle eggs that have been hatched into nests \u2014 holes in the sand that female Olive Ridley sea turtles dig with their flippers. They\u2019re gathered to prevent them being eaten by predators, including dogs, seagulls and poachers. The state-run and operated turtle hatchery is one of several that dot the western Indian shoreline \u2014 part patchwork efforts that have helped boost numbers of threatened Olive Ridley turtles after conservationists feared their populations would collapse in earlier decades amid industrial-scale slaughter for meat and leather, egg poaching, coastal developments on their nesting sites and their entanglement in fishing nets. Image by Diaa Hadid. April 2025, Guhagar India.\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n                Olive Ridley hatchlings are placed in a bucket after they were collected at a hatchery by volunteers.<\/p>\n<p>                    Diaa Hadid\/NPR<\/p>\n<p>                hide caption\n            <\/p>\n<p>            toggle caption<\/p>\n<p>        Diaa Hadid\/NPR<\/p>\n<p>As we look back at our international reporters&#8217; most memorable stories of the last year we revisit the story of the olive ridley turtle in India.\u00a0 Their population has rebounded after years of efforts to stem their decline.\u00a0 We go to a turtle festival on India&#8217;s coast and hear tourists cheer on turtle hatchlings as they head to the ocean.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Olive Ridley hatchlings are placed in a bucket after they were collected at a hatchery by volunteers. Diaa&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":222781,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[61,60,82,263],"class_list":{"0":"post-222780","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-ie","9":"tag-ireland","10":"tag-science","11":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222780\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/222781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}