Why is it in news?
- The Odisha forest department is to add another olive ridley mass nesting site to its wildlife map.
- It has started preparing the beach at the Bahuda river mouth in Ganjam district
- Around 3-km stretch of the beach from Sunapur to Anantpur at Bahuda rookery is being developed as a possible olive ridley mass nesting site.
- The Bahuda rookery is located around 20 km to the south of Rushikulya rookery coast, a major mass nesting site of olive ridleys on the Indian coastline.
Bahuda Beach
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Source
The Hindu