Goemkarponn desk
CANACONA: Galgibaga also joins the Agonda Turtle Rehabilitation Centre to become the second Reserved Beach to have Olive Ridley hatchlings at its Nursery early Saturday morning.
According to RFO (Wildlife), Anant Velip, the first-ever turtle nest, protected from 3rd January ‘2022 at Galgibaga, gave 54 hatchings so far, subsequently released in the sea.
Incidentally, the first pit protected at Galgibaga Turtle Rehabilitation Centre had 117 eggs in the incubation process, and while only 54 eggs were hatched, some more are expected to be hatched within the next two days as the incubation period for Olive Ridley is somewhere between 48- 58 days.
However, while a few of the olive Ridley Babies die soon after, many eggs are unproductive and do not hatch at all and, instead, get destroyed in the pit itself.
Galgibaga Turtle Reserved Beach, which protects 8 nesting with 870 Olive Ridley eggs, presently still has over 800 eggs under procreation.
Agonda, another reserved Beach in Canacona, has still 20 pits being protected with both Centres together containing 2049 eggs under Incubation.