Halt the Dhamra Port Project in India
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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 17-kilometer channels dredged deep and wide enough to accommodate Panamax and Capesize vessels.
The original environmental assessment failed to adequately address the impacts on the Olive Ridley’s suggesting that there would be no impact from the massive dredging and acknowledged light pollution that will come from the project. Recent studies have also linked ports to increase human mortality rates due to the high levels of pollution.
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.
Donate to halt the Dhamra port project today.
