They are perhaps the cutest things that keep coming to India year after year, and we do all we can to harm them... destroy their nests, steal their eggs, kill them for meat and shell... steal the young ones for exotic pet sales.
Read about some issues here.
And now there is a new port that is being planned at the locations these turtle keep coming to lay their eggs! Gahirmatha's seas are one of the world's largest breeding areas for the Olive Ridley Turtle. The Dhamra port could signal the end of this habitat forever.
Greenpeace has been pursuing the TATAs to change the location of the port since a while, and has taken out quite a few campaigns for this. This seems to be going on the right way as finally the TATAs seem to have taken notice and are hiring PR agents to look into the harm these campaigns are doing to their public image, and what can be done to save it! Wouldn't it be easier just to change the location of the port? Or is it that the souls have been sold already?
These turtles are going to need all the help and support from us that they can get. Read about the GreenPeace efforts here. I have been supporting this since some time now. I would hope you would be concerned and sign it as well and spread the word.
PS: I realize I have started sounding dangerously like one of those guys who are ready to march out for anything and everything....but I think I am concerned about the environment. After all, we have but one earth, and in the end of the day, it is left to us to decide what we want to make of it....we could turn it to a land of wonders, or a valley of shame. Let's make the right choice.
4 comments:
Hey the turtles in the pic...?? Are they...A and B??
But, i liked the post quite a lot, especially, because you did think about it the way you did :) People shouldn't ever buy them or pet them..they are kept in sad state, dozens of them stuffed in a waist pouch and carried through, to be sold by the vendors. Numerous of us fancy keeping them in home tanks ! It's a big bad world for the turtles to stay free.
Naughty Naughty SS - Nope A and B don't do it! But thanks for spicing it up...I think it's just a little too tame - what do you say? shall we !
Sure, why not?!
sheesh!
no..we don't do it. but hey, do join the campaign!
PS: A and B are great flatmates, and that means they don't have sex! a good flatmate is always much more difficult to find than good sex...trust me on that!
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