“Kartik Shanker, a leading Indian sea turtle expert and author of From Soup to Superstar, says around 20 years ago, conservationists counted no more than 100,000 turtle nests across the country…

‘But when some measure of protection was put in place,’ he says, ‘these turtles, olive ridley turtles, have rebounded.’ During the past winter’s nesting season, he says conservationists counted ‘about a million nests, which is crazy high.'”

From NPR.