Adani Dhamra Port Partners With IUCN For Safe Nesting Of Olive Ridley Turtles

 Bhadrak: Adani Dhamra Port has partnered with the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) to guarantee the safe nesting for Olive Ridley turtles and it gives us great satisfaction to see the increasing turtle nesting figure in the region, said Gautam Adani, Chairman, Adani Group while speaking on the occasion of the expansion of Dhamra Port in Odisha’s Bhadrak district on Saturday.

Sources in the state Forest department said till March this year, the total nesting figure stood at 6,84,000 an increase as compared to 6,04,000 last year which clearly indicates that the environment of this coast continues to be conducive for their mass nesting.

To increase the number of the Ridley turtles, the Adani Group has taken several measures like reducing the intensity of lights of the port and changing the angle so that the baby turtles don’t get disoriented, round the clock monitoring to detect turtles well in advance, limiting access to people going near the nesting sites, deflectors on dredgers to ensure turtles don’t get stuck in the pipes, and changing the ships passage so they don’t obstruct turtle nesting routes are some of the measures implemented to safeguard the nesting sites of these turtle which are facing extinction worldwide. 

The Olive Ridley turtles started arriving at the tranquil beach of Gahiramatha Marine Sanctuary, the world’s largest rookery of sea turtles, in the district in the last week of February this year for mass nesting. The Gahirmatha beach is the largest mass nesting site for Olive Ridley turtles along the Indian coastline, followed by the rookery at the mouth of the Rushikulya river.

Incidentally this beach is very close to Adani’s Dhamra port which is one of the major ports in the Eastern coast of India. This is a great example of industrialization taking place without conflicting the environment and life cycle of nature. 

Amidst all the development, expansion of the port and construction activity, the company along with the State Forest department and the Wildlife Institute of India (WII) have managed to implement initiatives that have seen the numbers of the Olive Ridley turtles nesting figure increase to record levels in this region.  Nesting Of Ridley Turtles
Bhadrak: Adani Dhamra Port has partnered with the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) to guarantee the safe nesting for Olive Ridley turtles and it gives us great satisfaction to see the increasing turtle nesting figure in the region, said Gautam Adani, Chairman, Adani Group while speaking on the occasion of the expansion of Dhamra Port in Odisha’s Bhadrak district on Saturday.

Sources in the state Forest department said till March this year, the total nesting figure stood at 6,84,000 an increase as compared to 6,04,000 last year which clearly indicates that the environment of this coast continues to be conducive for their mass nesting.

To increase the number of the Ridley turtles, the Adani Group has taken several measures like reducing the intensity of lights of the port and changing the angle so that the baby turtles don’t get disoriented, round the clock monitoring to detect turtles well in advance, limiting access to people going near the nesting sites, deflectors on dredgers to ensure turtles don’t get stuck in the pipes, and changing the ships passage so they don’t obstruct turtle nesting routes are some of the measures implemented to safeguard the nesting sites of these turtle which are facing extinction worldwide.

The Olive Ridley turtles started arriving at the tranquil beach of Gahiramatha Marine Sanctuary, the world’s largest rookery of sea turtles, in the district in the last week of February this year for mass nesting. The Gahirmatha beach is the largest mass nesting site for Olive Ridley turtles along the Indian coastline, followed by the rookery at the mouth of the Rushikulya river.

Incidentally this beach is very close to Adani’s Dhamra port which is one of the major ports in the Eastern coast of India. This is a great example of industrialization taking place without conflicting the environment and life cycle of nature.

Amidst all the development, expansion of the port and construction activity, the company along with the State Forest department and the Wildlife Institute of India (WII) have managed to implement initiatives that have seen the numbers of the Olive Ridley turtles nesting figure increase to record levels in this region.