With the continuous moderate to heavy rainfall at many places along the west coast of Maharashtra, there has been an increase in incidents of turtle rescues. On Monday a total of seven sea turtles were rescued from the coast of Maharashtra while in last one month, around 20 have been rescued from several beaches in Palghar district.

At present, the Mangroves Cell of the forest department has a marine respondents group in costal district of Mumbai-Thane-Palghar, Raigad, Ratnagiri and the formation of the group for Sindhudurg is under consideration.