Hawksbills vanishing, olive ridleys arriving, greens holding on. A new Olive Ridley Project study, drawing on seven years of nest counts across 18 of the Maldives’ 20 atolls, finds hawksbill nesting has collapsed from historical estimates of thousands of nests a year to fewer than 50 confirmed over seven years – even as olive ridleys have been recorded nesting in the country for the first time. Republished this World Turtle Day from the Olive Ridley Project: https://maldivesindependent.com/environment/shifting-sands-what-seven-years-of-nest-counts-reveal-about-maldivian-sea-turtles-c2bd Facebook

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”އަހަރެން ހާދަ ދެރަވެޔޭ. އަމިއްލައަށް މަރުވާނީއޭ. އެހެންނެއް ނޫން އެކަން ހިނގަނީކީ، ވިސްނެނީކީ،“ ކަމަށާއި ”މާދަމާ ހޭލަން ނުޖެހޭނެތީ އަހަރެން ހުރީ އުފަލުން،” ކަމަށް އާޔަ (އަޞްލު ނަމެއް ނޫން) ކިޔައިދިނެވެ. ފަރުވާގެ މަގުގައި އޭނާ ހިނގާންޖެހުނު ރާސްތާ ކިޔުއްވައިލައްވާށެވެ. Facebook

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Atoll Dispatch by Sophia Nasif. On Saturday 16 May, Sergeant Mohamed Mahudhee of the MNDF Coast Guard died during the operation to recover the bodies of five Italian divers from the Devana Kandu cave system in Vaavu atoll. According to the official account given to the BBC, CNN and the Associated Press, he died of decompression sickness after a planned MNDF dive. Sophia was at the recovery site that day. This is what she saw – three hours of observation at the surface, in pictures and timestamps. https://maldivesindependent.com/atoll-dispatch/what-was-visible-from-the-surface-a-photo-essay-from-the-recovery-dive-at-devana-kandu-2eae Sophia Nasif is a British-Maldivian photojournalist based in Malé, focusing on culture, environment and anthropology in the Maldives. She is the Ocean Culture Life ambassador for the Maldives, a member of PhotoAsia’s Decoding the Anthropocene cohort, and a Revolutionary Storyteller for Photographers Without Borders. Facebook

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Five Italian scientists and divers entered a submerged cave 50 metres below the surface in Vaavu atoll last Thursday and never came out. Two days later, a Maldivian Coast Guard sergeant died trying to recover their bodies. With all six dead now recovered, Italian prosecutors in Rome have opened a culpable homicide investigation. The Maldives government has launched its own probe. The MV Duke of York’s licence has been suspended. The University of Genoa has said the cave dive was undertaken privately. The presidential spokesperson has admitted the research permit had “gaps” — including the names of two of the divers who died. Our explainer pulls together what we now know about the dive, the cave, the recovery operation, the regulatory framework that was meant to govern all of it, and the questions both investigations now have to answer: https://maldivesindependent.com/explainer/the-devana-kandu-tragedy-criminal-probe-regulatory-gaps-and-the-questions-left-unanswered-e441 Facebook

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