(IN) 70,000 candles lit to save Orissa Turtles

[Guest guest]

Thanks for pointing it out. Herein lies the conflict between animal rights,

animal welfare and conservation. Regards.

 

On 5/27/08, NileshBhanage <NileshBhanage wrote:

>

>

> I hope these people know that 'How the Wax Candles is made? It is an

> Animal Ingredient!'

>

>

> Regards,

>

>

> Nilesh Bhanage

> PAWS

> *: +91-251-2625059

> Cell : +91 9820161114

> " Hands that help are holier than lips that pray. "

>

>

>

> http://indianwildlifereckoner.blogspot.com/2008/05/candles-lit-for-ratan

> -tata-70000-ask.html

> Sunday, May 25, 2008

> Candles lit for Ratan Tata, 70,000 ask him to save Orissa's

> turtles

>

> Mumbai, India - Over thirty Mumbaikars, Greenpeace volunteers all,

> tonight

> lit thousands of candles on the rocks in front of Bakhtawar, Colaba,

> asking

> the building's most famous resident, Mr. Ratan Tata, to shift his

> company's

> upcoming port project from Dhamra in Orissa in order to save the

> endangered

> olive ridley sea turtles. The Dhamra port is being built close to the

> Gahirmatha beach, one of the world's largest nesting grounds for the

> species.

> The candles symbolized the growing number (70,000 at last count) of

> Indians

> who have written to Mr. Tata asking him to relocate the port and not the

> turtles (1). So far there has been no response from Mr. Tata to this

> outpouring of public sentiment against the TATA port.

>

> " Mr. Tata has the reputation of a reasonable man who cares for our

> environment " , said Titus Jebaraj, Greenpeace volunteer, as he lit

> candles on

> the sea face. " People have been asking him for several years now to look

> for

> an alternative to this destructive port, in the interests of protecting

> one

> of the world's last mass nesting grounds for this enigmatic and peaceful

> creature, which has been around for millions more years than the TATAs

> have! "

>

> The Dhamra port is coming up less than 5 km. from the Bhitarkanika

> Sanctuary

> (India's second largest mangrove forest and home to the saltwater

> crocodile)

> and less than 15 km. from the nesting beaches of the Gahirmatha

> Sanctuary.

> Conservationists and researchers have consistently raised concerns about

> the

> port's impacts on the ecology since it was first proposed in the 1990s.

>

> Mired in controversy, the Dhamra Port area has been denied protection

> twice

> now, compromising the local environment and the Olive Ridley Turtles.

> Existing evidence has proved beyond doubt that turtles inhabit the

> off-shore

> waters, while the port site itself has thrown up records of rare species

> (2).

>

> More recently, international banking giant BNP Paribas has confirmed to

> Greenpeace that it is no longer refinancing a part of the Dhamra Port.

> This

> announcement came after the bank had commissioned an unnamed independent

> expert to look into environmental and social aspects concerning the

> project.

> Greenpeace had advised BNP Paribas that involvement in this project

> would

> not be in keeping with the Precautionary Approach, as the environmental

> and

> social assessment was not up to international standards (3).

>

> " Scientists are opposed to the port, conservationists are against it,

> international lending institutions clearly want to protect their

> reputations, and now thousands of Indians - TATA customers most of them

> -

> are asking Mr. Tata to place the survival of this species above

> increasing

> TATA profits. What will it take for him to listen?, " asked Ashish

> Fernandes,

> Oceans Campaigner with Greenpeace.

>

> Close to 70,000 people have now written to Mr. Tata via a cyber action

> at

> www.greenpeace.org/india/turtles The letter campaign comes on the heels

> of

> over 100 international scientists and turtle researchers expressing

> their

> opposition to the port. A number of Indian organizations, including the

> Wildlife Protection Society of Orissa and the Wildlife Society of

> Orissa,

> are also asking Mr. Tata to respect the turtles' breeding and nesting

> habitat and find alternatives to the port's current location.

>

> ---

>

>

>

 

 

 

[Guest guest]

This is not just a matter of concern for animal welfare.

Correct me if I am wrong but a candle requires Oxygen to burn.

Can someone please calculate the amount of Oxygen that was burnt to light up

70,000 candles???

For an organization like Greenpeace that cries foul on global warming and

other conservation issues, isn't this stupid??

 

Azam

 

 

On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 4:26 PM, <

journalistandanimals wrote:

 

> Thanks for pointing it out. Herein lies the conflict between animal

> rights,

> animal welfare and conservation. Regards.

>

> On 5/27/08, NileshBhanage

<NileshBhanage<NileshBhanage%40asbi.co.in>>

> wrote:

> >

> >

> > I hope these people know that 'How the Wax Candles is made? It is an

> > Animal Ingredient!'

> >

> >

> > Regards,

> >

> >

> > Nilesh Bhanage

> > PAWS

> > *: +91-251-2625059

> > Cell : +91 9820161114

> > " Hands that help are holier than lips that pray. "

> >

> >

> >

> > http://indianwildlifereckoner.blogspot.com/2008/05/candles-lit-for-ratan

> > -tata-70000-ask.html

> > Sunday, May 25, 2008

> > Candles lit for Ratan Tata, 70,000 ask him to save Orissa's

> > turtles

> >

> > Mumbai, India - Over thirty Mumbaikars, Greenpeace volunteers all,

> > tonight

> > lit thousands of candles on the rocks in front of Bakhtawar, Colaba,

> > asking

> > the building's most famous resident, Mr. Ratan Tata, to shift his

> > company's

> > upcoming port project from Dhamra in Orissa in order to save the

> > endangered

> > olive ridley sea turtles. The Dhamra port is being built close to the

> > Gahirmatha beach, one of the world's largest nesting grounds for the

> > species.

> > The candles symbolized the growing number (70,000 at last count) of

> > Indians

> > who have written to Mr. Tata asking him to relocate the port and not the

> > turtles (1). So far there has been no response from Mr. Tata to this

> > outpouring of public sentiment against the TATA port.

> >

> > " Mr. Tata has the reputation of a reasonable man who cares for our

> > environment " , said Titus Jebaraj, Greenpeace volunteer, as he lit

> > candles on

> > the sea face. " People have been asking him for several years now to look

> > for

> > an alternative to this destructive port, in the interests of protecting

> > one

> > of the world's last mass nesting grounds for this enigmatic and peaceful

> > creature, which has been around for millions more years than the TATAs

> > have! "

> >

> > The Dhamra port is coming up less than 5 km. from the Bhitarkanika

> > Sanctuary

> > (India's second largest mangrove forest and home to the saltwater

> > crocodile)

> > and less than 15 km. from the nesting beaches of the Gahirmatha

> > Sanctuary.

> > Conservationists and researchers have consistently raised concerns about

> > the

> > port's impacts on the ecology since it was first proposed in the 1990s.

> >

> > Mired in controversy, the Dhamra Port area has been denied protection

> > twice

> > now, compromising the local environment and the Olive Ridley Turtles.

> > Existing evidence has proved beyond doubt that turtles inhabit the

> > off-shore

> > waters, while the port site itself has thrown up records of rare species

> > (2).

> >

> > More recently, international banking giant BNP Paribas has confirmed to

> > Greenpeace that it is no longer refinancing a part of the Dhamra Port.

> > This

> > announcement came after the bank had commissioned an unnamed independent

> > expert to look into environmental and social aspects concerning the

> > project.

> > Greenpeace had advised BNP Paribas that involvement in this project

> > would

> > not be in keeping with the Precautionary Approach, as the environmental

> > and

> > social assessment was not up to international standards (3).

> >

> > " Scientists are opposed to the port, conservationists are against it,

> > international lending institutions clearly want to protect their

> > reputations, and now thousands of Indians - TATA customers most of them

> > -

> > are asking Mr. Tata to place the survival of this species above

> > increasing

> > TATA profits. What will it take for him to listen?, " asked Ashish

> > Fernandes,

> > Oceans Campaigner with Greenpeace.

> >

> > Close to 70,000 people have now written to Mr. Tata via a cyber action

> > at

> > www.greenpeace.org/india/turtles The letter campaign comes on the heels

> > of

> > over 100 international scientists and turtle researchers expressing

> > their

> > opposition to the port. A number of Indian organizations, including the

> > Wildlife Protection Society of Orissa and the Wildlife Society of

> > Orissa,

> > are also asking Mr. Tata to respect the turtles' breeding and nesting

> > habitat and find alternatives to the port's current location.

> >

> > ---

> >

> >

> >

>

>