No time to LOOSE!

Think Again!

Dear All

The dhamra port is very close to a critically endangered nesting site of Olive riddley Turtles. There has been several appeals done to the Tata's to understand that not today, but few years from now the turtles will be affected and they will be gone.

As TATA 's have got IUCN clearance, which is not a complicated milestone to achieve for them and hence no legal body can point a finger .

They might share a differrent opinion and turtles don t come in there priority. The development Dhamra port promises cant be questioned either. But it was truly uncalled for when they stopped an organization like Greenpeace to enter there premises for awareness programmes. Greenpeace has been constantly fighting for the turtles and asking them to shift the port. This might be frustrating fo The TATA's . By the nature of the organization Greenpeace too has to follow a certain method to voice them selves. On the other Hand TATA has its own stance.But if as a multinationational they are so confidant anout there legal and financial clearance which has been mentioned on The DPCL site then why this hostility for Greenpeace. After all its an NGO which runs on charity.

Barring them from conducting awareness programmes as they are the only once to speak against the port sounds immature and again arouses speculations over the ecological effects of the port.

If TATA s are concerned about some negative word to be spread to there employees by Greenpeace they can clearly ask them to keep the port out of there discussions whenever they conduct programmes at TCS campus.

There are other environmental issues which needs to be addressed. Port is just a drop of water in the big sea of conservation problems.

The point is not who fighting whom,but the real issues which needs to be addressed. And as TATA's claim to be green at heart they might want to consider this.

regards Jayesh Pillai

The Lost Wisdom!

Dear All

I wonder sometimes at human foolishness. We are said to have a selfish approach to life. My car ,my house ,my children. Yet we fail to see what will affect us in future and that sometimes one has to work for greater good in life to live healthy .
Suppose the Turtles, how do they affect us will never be taken into consideration. Cheers to human mortality which gives us an ex cuse to escape and we never really bother about distant future.
so turtles gone will do no harm for us?
well that we can only say when we face consequences. This is what we do when we manage to swipe out an entire speie at a time. The fact that in every 5 min a species is getting extinct is no joke. If we look around there are many creatures we might have seen as a child but cant see them now. Can we see sparrows? They were around when i was a kid.
I hope for the days when people around me will become wise enough to realize what they are doing.Till then just pray and wish something beautiful remains alive on this planet in coming few years...

Regards jayesh

Is it too late?

Dear All

The Dhamra port has been completed to 25%. But there still a chance we can do something. make an appeal tell your friends . Please visit www.greenpeace.org/turtles and send your petition. I must again tell everyone that ports are required for development but the cost we are about to pay is too much. Olive Riddleys form an important link nin the marine eco system. There health defines the health of the oceans. Half of the oxygen we breathe comes from the oceans. Why are we making this planet inhabitable for ourselves?

Dont we all need a green beautiful earth for living. Why is it not our reponsibility ,why it is always the government or an NGO we need ,to care for the nature.

This is a solemn request to all ,please wake up start caring for the nature ,it has given us all life. The clocks ticking,time s passing by..

Please hurry!!

Regards Jayesh

Who is OLIVE RIDDLEY?

The olive ridley turtles are a symbol of the health of our oceans. The olive ridley inhabits tropical and subtropical coastal bays and estuaries. It is very oceanic in the Eastern Pacific and probably elsewhere too. These animals are found in the Pacific and Indian Oceans, and along the Atlantic coast of West Africa and the Atlantic coast of South America. In the Eastern Pacific it occurs from Southern California, USA to Northern Chile. Large nesting aggregations called "arribadas" still occur in Pacific Costa Rica, primarily at Nancite and Ostionales and Pacific Mexico at La Escobilla, Oaxaca. According to the Marine Turtle Newsletter (October 1993), an estimated 500,000 nesting females came ashore during a single week in March, 1991 at Gahirmatha Orissa, India.
The last large arribada beach in India is threatened with disaster by the development of major fishing port and a prawn culture facility. In fact, it threatens the entire Bhitarkanika Sanctuary in which the beach is located. On the Mexican Pacific Coast of the states of Jalisco, Michoacan, Guerrero and Oaxaca, past large scale exploitation for meat, eggs and leather reduced the once large arriabas to dangerously low levels. In June of 1990, Mexico declared total protection for this species as well as the other species of sea turtles inhabiting Mexican waters, but there is still a trade on the black market. In 1993, 350,000 nests were recorded in Escobilla, Oaxaca (Marquez, 1994, pers. comm.). Mexico has recently opened the Mexican Turtle Center at Mazunte, Oaxaca, near the site of a former turtle slaughter house. Hopefully, some of the same individuals who formerly killed turtles will be able to earn a living by protecting them and educating visitors about them. Despite Mexican initiatives to protect the olive ridley, this same population is still exploited in the black market in Mexico and harvested as it feeds along the Pacific coasts of Nicaragua and Ecuador..
Once slaughtered in the hundreds of thousands for meat and leather, olive ridleys have yet to recover from centuries of over-exploitation. While the species has a wide range, the number of important breeding sites is very restricted, so efforts to protect their major beaches are vital.The illegal harvest of their eggs in the Central American region continues, and there is also high mortality of adults due to coastal fisheries that do not yet use Turtle Excluder Devices (TEDs) in their nets.
Kindly help to save there last nesting gound at Orrisa near Dhamra.
Please visit greenpeace.org/turtles.
regards Jayesh

AAAAAAGGHH...understand please.!

Dear All

A lot of resentment is been confronted on me over the Turtles. As if I am coming on the way of development. No matter how much one screams ,people give a deaf ear. No one in todays age can afford to be anti development. I am just saying though shifting port is expensive ,nature is something which should be given a priority over money. There might be complex finances involved but only TATA's can give this kind of priority to marine life and ecology.

Considering there empathy towards such issues,there is no one else who can understand this better. To save the Turtles the port must be shifted.Turtles nest at beaches on on ports. Yes the sanctuary is a little far but disturbances caused by huge ships will affect there habits and habitat. So please everyone spread the message accross.

The port will bring prosperity and this all the more why it should 'nt be build upon the death of a manificient specie"The Olive Ridley".

regards Jayesh!

LET THEM DIE!

Dear All
Since last few weeks i have acting this Turtle saviour with no one really taking interest. But strangely I dont feel tired. may be some will read . may be someone may feel the need to speak up.
After all they will be extinct in a few years.We can shed a few last minute tears. The port Of Dhamra has already been started .I magine the shipping Traffic,Oil spills,Urbanization will do to the peaceful nesting gorund.
But the question arises,is there time left to save them?Yes,if we try. But do we wnat to try.
Are they really important for us?The problem is we cant find the significance of these creatures in our daily lives. Partly we can blame on the education system which till 2003 did nt had compulsary environmental studies in all classes.
Till then we ,our parents never bothered about environment. this apathy is a long back sown seed which has made this planet a toxic ball breathing fire.We always wake up too late. When somethings gone or dead.
This time too we are watching and waiting till the moment when we can finally pay our condolences to the Olive Ridley turtles.So lets watch and feel proud of ourselves that we saw another species being wiped out in our complete knowledge in broad daylight.
Regards jayesh.