9th Nov, 2007

Action Alert: Protect Coastal Communities and Sea Turtles in India

The Orissa state government in India is permitting construction of a massive deep-water industrial port less than 15 kilometers from one of the world’s most important Olive Ridley sea turtle nesting beaches. If completed, the Dhamra port will be one of the largest in South Asia, with 19-kilometer channels dredged deep and wide enough to accommodate Panamax and Capesize vessels.

Environmental organizations and local fishermen’s unions are asking the international community to help them stop construction of the Dhamra port at this location where its impacts on the sea turtles could spell extinction and its impacts on local fishermen could spell ruin.

Please send an email today to protect coastal communities and turtles in India today.

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The turtles have been around for several million years longer than we have. Port by port, reclamation by reclamation we are driving them to oblivion. What we are doing to the habitats of turtles, sharks, whale sharks and dolphins — and all the creatures that share their space — must be labelled INTERGENERATIONAL COLONISATION. This is a moral issue on which both Tata Steel and IUCN have come up short. I doubt that their reputations will have much of a shine after this. I doubt that future generations will find in them the heart to forgive. We will stop them with every strength available to us.

By: Bittu Sahgal on November 9th, 2007
at 7:07 pm

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