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Miles to go before I sleep

ery year, between January and March, thousands of female olive ridley turtles converge on the shores of Gahirmatha and Rushikulya beaches in Odisha, to lay eggs. Under moonlight, the females slowly make their way across the beach, one flipper after the next, until they find a suitable spot to make a nest. This mass nesting phenomenon is called arribada (Spanish for arrival) and occurs at only a handful of beaches across the planet, but not all olive ridleys practice mass nesting. The arribada

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