The olive ridley sea turtle ( Lepidochelys olivacea ), also known as the Pacific ridley, is a species of sea turtle.

The olive ridley is a small extant sea turtle, with an adult carapace length averaging 60 to 70 cm < sup > 1 </ sup >.

The olive ridley turtle has a circumtropical distribution living in tropical and warm waters of the Pacific and Indian Oceans from India, Arabia, Japan, and Micronesia south to southern Africa, Australia, and New Zealand.

Additionally, there have been records of the olive ridley in the Caribbean Sea as far north as Puerto Rico.

The olive ridley sea turtles are considered the most abundant, yet globally they have declined by more than 30 % from historic levels.

Pacific olive ridley ’ s nest around Costa Rica, Mexico, Nicaragua, and the Northern Indian Ocean ; the breeding colony in Mexico was listed as endangered in the U. S. on July 28, 1978.

Some of the olive ridley ’ s foraging grounds near southern California are contaminated due to sewage, agricultural runoff, pesticides, solvents and industrial discharges.

The olive ridley was first described as Testudo mydas minor, Suckhow, 1798.

The olive ridley is predominantly carnivorous, especially in immature stages of the life cycle.

The olive ridley is also known to feed on filamentous algae in areas devoid of other food sources < sup > 1 </ sup >.

Known predators of olive ridley nests include raccoons, coyotes, feral dogs and pigs, opossums, coatimundi, caimans, ghost crabs, and the sunbeam snake < sup > 2 </ sup >.

Trawling, gill nets, ghost nests, long line, and pot fishing, have significantly impacted olive ridley populations, as well as other species of marine turtles < sup > 1, 7 </ sup >.

During 1993 – 2003, more than 100 000 olive ridley turtles were reported dead in Orissa, India from fishery-related practices < sup > 8 </ sup >.

However, the greatest single cause of olive ridley egg loss results from ' arribadas ', in which the density of nesting females is so high that previously laid nests are inadvertently dug up and destroyed by other nesting females < sup > 1 </ sup >.

Historically, the olive ridley has been exploited for food, bait, oil, leather, and fertilizer.

In most regions, illegal poaching of eggs is considered a major threat to olive ridley populations, and thus the practice of allowing legal egg harvests continues to attract criticism from conservationists and sea turtle biologists.

Conservation successes for the olive ridley have relied on well-coordinated national programs in combination with local communities and non-government organizations, which focused primarily on public outreach and education. Arribada management has also played a critical role in conserving olive ridleys < sup > 4 </ sup >. Lastly, enforcing the use of Turtle Excluder Devices ( TEDs ) in the shrimp trawling industry has also proved effective in some areas < sup > 7 </ sup >.

Globally, the olive ridley continues to receive less conservation attention than its close relative, the Kemp ridley ( L. kempii )< sup > 8 </ sup >.

Olive and olive oil production is particularly important for the economy of the region.

It is boiled, then served with olive oil and lemon like a salad, usually alongside fried fish.

This moth has been introduced to the eastern United States and is common near many towns ; it is about 12 cm across, with angulated wings, and in colour olive brown, with white markings.

3: 17 For though the fig tree doesn ’ t flourish, nor fruit be in the vines ; the labor of the olive fails, the fields yield no food ; the flocks are cut off from the fold, and there is no herd in the stalls: 3: 18 yet I will rejoice in Yahweh.

However, unlike the French, it is made with oil or bacon fat and more lately olive oil, and not butter, and it is used as a thickening agent, especially in gumbo and étouffée.

The climate is generally dry and mild, but with the exception of Naxos the soil is not very fertile: agricultural produce includes wine, fruit, wheat, olive oil, and tobacco.

In northern Europe, wheat, rye, and fats of animal origin predominate, while in southern Europe olive oil is ubiquitous and rice is more prevalent.

Throughout the Middle East and Mediterranean there is a common thread marking the use of lamb, olive oil, lemons, peppers, and rice.

Harmaline is thought to act primarily on neurons in the inferior olive ( IO ).

Additionally, when harmaline is administered to lesioned IOs, little to no tremors are observed, reinforcing harmalines ’ specificity for inferior olive connections.

In Italy, carpaccio is a dish of very thinly sliced raw beef, drizzled with a vinaigrette made with olive oil.

The only thing all these variations have in common is the original gazpacho, in other words, the basic paste made of garlic, which works as an emulsifier bread, the olive oil, the vinegar and salt.

Wine and olive oil have always been a central part of it and the spread of grapes and olive trees in the Mediterranean and further afield is correlated with Greek colonization.

The most characteristic and ancient element of Greek cuisine is olive oil, which is frequently used in most dishes.

It is produced from the olive trees prominent throughout the region, and adds to the distinctive taste of Greek food.

* Greek salad: the so-called Greek salad is known in Greece as village / country salad ( horiatiki ) and is essentially a tomato salad with cucumber, red onion, feta cheese, and kalamata olives, dressed with olive oil.

It is made of beans, tomatoes, carrot, celery and a generous amount of olive oil usually served with a variety of salty side dishes.

* Psarosoupa ' fish soup ' can be made with a variety of fish, and several kinds of vegetables ( carrots, parsley, celery, potatoes, onion ), several varieties include the classic kakavia which is drizzled with olive oil.

Species belonging to genus Jasminum are classified under the tribe Jasmineae of the olive family ( Oleaceae ).

The lamps of the menorah were lit daily from fresh, consecrated olive oil and burned from evening until morning, according to.

Though, according to the 4th-century BC father of botany, Theophrastus, olive trees ordinarily attained an age of about 200 years, he mentions that the very olive tree of Athena still grew on the Acropolis ; it was still to be seen there in the 2nd century AD ; and when Pausanias was shown it, ca 170 AD, he reported " Legend also says that when the Persians fired Athens the olive was burnt down, but on the very day it was burnt it grew again to the height of two cubits.

An olive tree in Algarve, Portugal, is 2000 years old, according to radiocarbon dating.

The term chrismation is used because the recipient of the sacrament is anointed with Chrism, which according to eastern Christan belief, the Apostles sanctified and introduced for all priests to use as a replacement for laying on of hands by the Apostles and consists of a " mixture of forty sweet-smelling substances and pure olive oil " sanctified by a bishop with some older Chrism added in, in the belief that some trace of the initial Chrism sanctified by the Apostles is contained therein.

" Their olive green color and smooth or scaly appearance is the basis of the name from the Latin serpentinus, meaning " serpent rock ," according to Best ( 2003 ).

The die-cut cardboard counters were colored according to nationality, with field gray for German, light olive for German allies ( Hungary, Romania, Italy and Finland with a letter indicating the nationality ) and black for German SS units.

The early Christians, according to Winckelmann, often allegorised peace on their sepulchres by the figure of a dove bearing an olive branch in its beak.