Sri Lankan Wildlife Department officials remove the carcass of a marine turtle for further examination after it washed ashore on a beach in the suburbs of Colombo, Sri Lanka, on June 21.

REKAWA, SRI LANKA — On a moonlit night, a group of young men huddled around a green turtle as it dug deep into a beach to lay its eggs. They could hear the turtle breathing and grunting as it ...

"Southern Sri Lanka has beaches and seagrass beds that are important nesting rookeries for marine turtles, and the area is home to migratory whales, all of which could be affected by toxic ...

And dozens of rare sea turtles washed up on Sri Lanka’s beaches, some with what appeared to be scorch marks on their shells. Fish, dolphins and even a whale were found dead. As of late June ...

Sri Lankan wildlife workers remove the remains of a turtle from a beach polluted following the sinking of a container ship that caught fire while transporting chemicals off Kapungoda, on the ...

Image courtesy of the Sri Lanka Turtle ID project. ... In the months since its sinking, more than 200 marine turtles have washed up dead on the beaches and in the waters in the vicinity.

Sea turtles are a protected species in Sri Lanka and the Indian Ocean island’s palm fringed southern and eastern beaches are safe nesting grounds for five of the eight known varieties of the ...

This year, the southern coasts of Sri Lanka saw a resurgence of turtles coming to nest. The birth of rare leatherback turtles in a protected area of the Matara beach this week was the high point of ...

Several sea turtle eggs were found at Galle Face beach on January 18, 2020, when the navy carried out a beach cleaning. Chairman of the Turtle Conservation project, Thusahan Kapurusinghe said that ...