We make Gir eco friends group and completed “Dariyai jiv srushti bachavo jan jaguti abhiyan” in saurashtra coast area. Our main thought is people know about sea turtle and whale shark nearly.
We went to local people, fisherman and coast area school to explain about the trouble of whale shark and sea turtle life.
The first step, therefore, will be to create general awareness among the locals and hopefully steer the fishermen towards whale shark tourism to keep sharks alive which will increase their income. Across the saurashtra coast are planned Poster campaigns and major awareness drives in villages.
Apparently the infrastructure to develop whale shark tourism is lacking and there are currently no dive operations active in this area. It is hoped that the current 'Save the Whale Shark and sea turtle Campaign' can create sufficient public awareness to jump-start the necessary development.
In the past whale sharks have been slaughtered in large numbers when they visit the Gujarat coast, India, between March-May. In the past 10 years this has increased considerably as a means of making quick money.
Official figures before 2001 reveal, every year, over 150 whale sharks are caught along the Gujarat coast. Independent figures, however, show this figure to be closer to 500. The Data supplied by the Shark Research Institute (SRI) helped the Government band the trade and fishing in May 2001 by placing the endangered fish in schedule of the Wildlife Protection Act. This has reduced the number of whale sharks taken but legal protection is not enough as it is not possible to continuously police the state's large coastline. Awareness, therefore, is the only future key to protect and conserve this endangered species.
Over millions of years of their existence, sea turtles have evolved a variety of remarkable strategies for survival. They use a wide range of habitats, thus playing a critical role as flagship species for the conservation of the oceans' ecosystems and diversity. Many of these habitats face mounting threats today around the world. Sea turtles are also an important part of the traditional culture of many coastal indigenous peoples all round the world.
Sea turtles migrate long distances between their feeding grounds and nesting sites. After they hatch and return to the sea, only the females return as adults to nest, males may never come back to land at all. Consequently, knowledge of their biology has been confined to the small time interval when they come on to land to nest. Thus there are many questions that scientists are only just beginning to understand: Where do the hatchlings go after they leave the nesting beach? Does the turtle come back to nest on the same beach where it hatched? How do females navigate to the same nesting beaches again & again, covering several thousand kilometers?
We thanks to our team and local people for given us support. We are also hearty thanks to Mr. Nitin Bondre, Shapoorji palloonji & his Co. ltd.
We went to local people, fisherman and coast area school to explain about the trouble of whale shark and sea turtle life.
The first step, therefore, will be to create general awareness among the locals and hopefully steer the fishermen towards whale shark tourism to keep sharks alive which will increase their income. Across the saurashtra coast are planned Poster campaigns and major awareness drives in villages.
Apparently the infrastructure to develop whale shark tourism is lacking and there are currently no dive operations active in this area. It is hoped that the current 'Save the Whale Shark and sea turtle Campaign' can create sufficient public awareness to jump-start the necessary development.
In the past whale sharks have been slaughtered in large numbers when they visit the Gujarat coast, India, between March-May. In the past 10 years this has increased considerably as a means of making quick money.
Official figures before 2001 reveal, every year, over 150 whale sharks are caught along the Gujarat coast. Independent figures, however, show this figure to be closer to 500. The Data supplied by the Shark Research Institute (SRI) helped the Government band the trade and fishing in May 2001 by placing the endangered fish in schedule of the Wildlife Protection Act. This has reduced the number of whale sharks taken but legal protection is not enough as it is not possible to continuously police the state's large coastline. Awareness, therefore, is the only future key to protect and conserve this endangered species.
Over millions of years of their existence, sea turtles have evolved a variety of remarkable strategies for survival. They use a wide range of habitats, thus playing a critical role as flagship species for the conservation of the oceans' ecosystems and diversity. Many of these habitats face mounting threats today around the world. Sea turtles are also an important part of the traditional culture of many coastal indigenous peoples all round the world.
Sea turtles migrate long distances between their feeding grounds and nesting sites. After they hatch and return to the sea, only the females return as adults to nest, males may never come back to land at all. Consequently, knowledge of their biology has been confined to the small time interval when they come on to land to nest. Thus there are many questions that scientists are only just beginning to understand: Where do the hatchlings go after they leave the nesting beach? Does the turtle come back to nest on the same beach where it hatched? How do females navigate to the same nesting beaches again & again, covering several thousand kilometers?
We thanks to our team and local people for given us support. We are also hearty thanks to Mr. Nitin Bondre, Shapoorji palloonji & his Co. ltd.
