Nesting takes place on the beaches of northwest Guyana. 

 Nesting is mostly diffuse, without any signs of an arribada. 

 From tracks on the beach and evidence of poaching, they are by no 

 means rare nesters. At this time, though, no concerted 

 conservation effort for sea turtles in Guyana exists, and an 

 assessment of population size is not possible. 



In Surinam, olive ridley nesting is diffused on all the 

 beaches in the eastern half of the country, but the focus of 

 nesting activities is located on Eilanti Beach at the mouth of 

 the Marowijne River, which separates Surinam from French Guiana. 

 On Eilanti Beach in 1962, the first ever, officially reported, 

 arribada of the ridley genus in the Americas was observed. 



In French Guiana, as in Guyana, nesting of olive ridleys is 

 diffused, and there is no evidence of an arribada ever having 

 taken place. Although considerable sea turtle conservation 

 activity takes place in French Guiana, it is mostly concentrated 

 on the leatherbacks. Only recently have olive ridleys been 

 monitored. Conclusions from these data cannot yet be drawn, but 

 tentative records show that olive ridleys nest in reasonable 

 numbers, although not as numerous as in Surinam and Guyana. 



Neither the literature nor several personal visits to 

 beaches on the northeast coast of Brazil indicate the presence of 

 olive ridley nesting activity in that region. Moving southward, 

 the first signs of olive ridley nesting were in the state of 

 Bahia. Subsequently, this was verified by research of the dei 

 Marcovaldis, who have reported olive ridley nesting beaches in 

 the states of Bahia and Sergipe. 



(3) Foraging. 



Olive ridleys have been reported from Cuba, in the north, to 

 Uruguay, in the south (Fig. 1, Table 1) . In both locations 

 sightings have been rare. These countries should by no means be 

 considered as part of the normal range. Foraging juveniles and 

 adults have been reported along the coast of Panama, and around 

 some of the eastern Caribbean islands, but the bulk of the 

 central western Atlantic olive ridley population forages near 

 Venezuela and the Guianas. A few Surinam-tagged olive ridleys 

 have been recovered near Natal in the Brazilian state of Rio 

 Grande do Norte, but no indication of a major foraging population 

 has been found there. For the population in the southwestern 

 Atlantic, no specific foraging areas have yet been located, but 

 an educated guess is that these will probably be found near the 

 mouths of the larger rivers, within a radius of some 700-800 km 

 from the nesting beaches. 



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