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How much more money needs to be spent to track turtle trail

THE Orissa forest department along with the Wildlife Institute of India in Dehradun attached transmitters to seven Olive Ridley turtles this year. Last year, the transmitters were on 30 turtles. This practice is carried out to track the movement of the turtles that come to the Orissa coast to breed and nest between November and March every year. Scientists have for long wondered where the turtles come from and where they go after breeding. Experiments are on since 2001 but the transmitters

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