Greenpeace Failure - Arribada continues at Gahirmatha Nesting Beach

In order to facilitate the movement of large size vessels, a deep-sea port was proposed on the north of the mouth of river Dhamra, on the eastern coast of India. In 2004, the Dhamra port was suggested to be built under Public Private Partnership (PPP) through the Dharma Port Corporation Limited (DPCL), a 50:50 joint venture between Tata Steel and L&T. Unfortunately, ever since its inception, certain groups and individuals, mostly campaigners like Greenpeace have expressed unfounded and biased apprehensions to malign the project as an environmental threat.

This video clearly narrates the misconceptions that have been spread, and the actual facts to counter them.

Contrary to common belief that the Dhamra port is located where turtles nest, it is situated at the north of the mouth of river Dhamra, while nesting of the Olive Ridleys take place in the south of Dhamra river mouth. Water route distance between the two is 30 Kms. Turtles do not visit the northern sector of the river. The turtles congregate and breed well within the marine sanctuary area that covers 52 sq.kms, while the port area is sufficiently removed from the outer buffer area of the marine sanctuary.

Though socially concerned organizations like the Greenpeace have created all possible impediments to the development of the port, DPCL makes it clear that it is both aware and conscious of its various social and environmental responsibilities. With this in view, the Company has associated with the International Union of Conservation of Nature (IUCN) to help assess the port situation and put in place appropriate environment management plans reaffirming that shipping activities and turtle nesting can co-exist, like in many places of the world. To facilitate turtle nesting, several steps have been taken. While turtle deflectors have been added at the mouth of the dredgers to mitigate the effects of dredging, environment friendly dark sky lighting system has been installed to light up the coastline adequately, but without disturbing the turtles. The Company has also conducted research on the subject and arranged for several local awareness programmes.

In spite of its best efforts, Greenpeace has not been able to keep the turtles from visiting the Gahirmatha beach. In March 2009, around 1,70,000 turtles nested at the beach as dredging of the Dhamra north canal continued. While DPCL prepares to set an example of building an environmentally sustainable port of the future, the olive ridley turtles continue to visit the Orissa coast for breeding, in the same way that they have done for so many thousands of years; and the Arribada continues

Category:

Pets & Animals

Tags:

• Arribada
• Olive Ridley Turtles
• Gahirmatha Nesting Beach
• TATA
• Greenpeace
• Dhamra
• Port
• Orissa
• Bhadrak

[biswatest]

MR MOHAPATRA is speaking crap as if he is the care taker of the nature he talks about the ports of Autralia and china.... in no way we are going to get benefited if we get such ports and I am damn sure we can't have those ports made as we are always corrupt and dont care abt nature ....he says the port would be first of its kind in entire region......BUT HE DOESNOT CARE ABOUT THE NESTING PLACE THAT IS UNIQUE IN INDIA.....OR ONE OF THE BIGGEST IN WORLD....

[jimmyboyG485]

Careful, this video contains logic and rational reasoning. Two concepts completely alien to the average Greenpeace nutcase.