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Date	Title
17 Mar 2010	Australia: LNG site ‘threat’ to turtle travel
Intro : Fresh fears for the sustainability of WA’s flatback turtle population have been ignited after revelations that turtles are nesting and foraging at sites of two of the biggest LNG projects.
15 Mar 2010	Olive Ridley turtles begin nesting at second Orissa beach
Intro : Thousands of Olive Ridley turtles crawled ashore from the Bay of Bengal Monday, after a month’s delay, at the Rushikulya beach in Orissa’s Ganjam district to lay their eggs.
13 Mar 2010	Konkan Turtle Festival draws domestic, foreign tourists
Intro : The second Konkan Turtle Festival-2010 has got off to a flying start with over 375 Olive Ridley turtles released in the Arabian Sea during the past four days.
13 Mar 2010	East Java fishermen arrested for possessing explosives
Intro : Policemen in the East Java island of Madura arrested three fishermen for possessing home-made explosives, suspected to be used for blast fishing.
13 Mar 2010	India: Green turtle rescued from poachers
Intro : The CSG-CID wing of the district police and the forest officers of the Gulf of Mannar Biosphere on Thursday recovered a green turtle from poachers in Thoothukudi.
12 Mar 2010	India: Up to 67 Olive Ridley turtles let into sea
Intro : As many as 67 Olive ridley turtles, hatched in the artificial hatchery run by the forest department at Kodiakarai, were let into the sea.
11 Mar 2010	Philippines: Coral reefs face new El Niño threat
Intro : An international conservation group warned that the current El Niño episode may have adverse effects on the recovering coral reefs in the Philippines.
11 Mar 2010	Suit launched to challenge finance for foreign LNG project
Intro : Environement groups have intended to sue the federal agency for financing an LNG project in Papua New Guinea without analyzing the project’s environmental impacts.
10 Mar 2010	Australia: Turtle Month helps Loggerhead research
Intro : A research project to track endangered loggerhead turtles nesting at Mon Repos Conservation Park will get a boost this month from customers at McDonalds’ restaurants in Bundaberg.
10 Mar 2010	Church joins villagers in opposing mega steel plant
Intro : The Catholic Church has declared to stand by the villagers opposed to the setting up of the Rs 50,000 crore mega steel venture near Paradip in Orissa.
10 Mar 2010	Malaysian turtles face extinction: WWF
Intro : Conservationists warned Wednesday that Malaysians’ voracious appetite for turtle eggs could drive the marine creatures to extinction on its shores.
10 Mar 2010	Philippines: Marinduque seeks ‘pawikan’ habitat
Intro : Frequent sightings and efforts to rescue sea turtles in Marinduque have prompted local environment officials and advocates to have the island-province declared a critical habitat.
10 Mar 2010	U.S. moves to list loggerhead turtles as endangered
Intro : The National Marine Fisheries Service and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service proposed a rule that would list seven distinct loggerhead populations as endangered.
9 Mar 2010	India: Tata Steel takes CSR to the silver screen
Intro : ‘Hello Zindagi’, a movie venture supported by Tata Steel and Dhamra Port Company Ltd highlights the sensitive issue of the conservation of Olive Ridley turtles in the story.
9 Mar 2010	First hawksbill turtle eggs of season in UAE sanctuary
Intro : The first turtle eggs of the season have been laid by a hawksbill turtle who made her way to a protected beach in Dubai.
8 Mar 2010	Olive Ridley gets first-ever satellite telemetry tagging
Intro : Sea turtle conservation along the Tamil Nadu coast received a fillip with the first-ever satellite telemetry tagging of an adult female Olive Ridley.
7 Mar 2010	Australia: Hatchlings head out
Intro : Record numbers of baby turtles are making their way across the sand on Sunshine Coast beaches this year, with nest numbers well above those recorded in recent years.
6 Mar 2010	NZ helps bust illegal trade ring
Intro : New Zealand officials have revealed their part in an international operation to fight the illegal trade in endangered wildlife.
6 Mar 2010	170,000 Olive Ridley turtles lay eggs in Orissa’s Gahirmatha
Intro : At least 170,000 endangered female Olive Ridley turtles have laid their eggs in the protected Gahirmatha sanctuary, a famed nesting site in coastal Orissa, during the past 11 days.
5 Mar 2010	UAE: Race to save dying sea turtle
Intro : Weak and dehydrated, a green sea turtle was rescued by the Emirates Marine Environmental Group (EMEG), and is now being monitored in an aquarium.
5 Mar 2010	UK poised to designate world’s largest marine reserve
Intro : The Pew Environment Group praised the United Kingdom (U.K.) for taking one further step towards designating the world’s largest marine reserve.
4 Mar 2010	India: Where have all the turtles gone?
Intro : Conservationists and wildlife experts are understandably worried about the massive decline in the mass nesting colonies of Olive Ridley turtles on India's west coast.
3 Mar 2010	Concern over delay in mass nesting of Oilve Ridley turtles
Intro : Although there was a large congregation of Olive Ridley turtles in the sea near the Rushikulya rookery for mating, they are yet to come over to the beach for mass nesting.
3 Mar 2010	Australia: Mon Repos turtle-y cool
Intro : Central Queensland’s Mon Repos beach has hatched the best turtle-laying season in 28 years and it’s not too late to experience this natural wonder.
3 Mar 2010	Loggerhead turtles nesting in Pakistan
Intro : After two turtle species already nesting in Pakistan, a third one, the Loggerhead Turtles species, has also been confirmed in Pakistan.
2 Mar 2010	Sri Lanka, India join for turtle conservation
Intro : Sri Lanka and India have joined hands for a collaborative turtle conservation project in the Northern Indian Ocean, aiming to understand the complex migration patterns of sea turtles.
1 Mar 2010	Turtles: the new clue to climate change?
Intro : For the past three years, the sea turtles have changed their breeding. The nesting season has started in April, instead of the second half of March, according to EAD’s scientists.