Around 1,000 Giant Turtles die in India and Bangladesh!
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It’s actually nesting season for the sea turtles in Bangladesh and India, but this year the beaches where these animals generally lay their eggs are empty.
According to conservation workers, nearly around a thousand dead turtles were washed ashore along the coasts of both India and Bangladesh in the last few weeks.
Around 200 dead reptiles have appeared in the last week alone along a single stretch of beach, in the Bangladeshi tourist town of Cox’s Bazar. According to a team of scientists who visited the beach, these mysterious mass deaths have been caused due to fishing nets.
The sea turtles that are swarming towards the shore to lay their eggs to nest are getting caught in badly laid nets and dying. The local fishers disagree with this and claim that they very rarely catch sea turtles, and even if they do, they quickly return the animal back to the water alive.
Many hundreds of miles away in eastern India as well conservationists say that they too are finding similar evidence that nets are to blamed for their death.