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UDUPI: FSL India, international voluntary organisation working towards turtle conservation in association with department of forest and local fishermen community have initiated the task of conserving around 100 eggs of Olive Ridley sea turtles at Kodi beach, some 35-kms from here. Fishermen Babu Mogaveera and Ganapathi Kharvi who spotted the eggs near the Kodi lighthouse on Friday informed the department and FSL India members.
Venkatesh Moodkeri, senior programme manager, FSL India told TOI that Kodi in addition to Maravanthe and Navunda are the regular spots along the coast where these sea turtles come to lay their eggs. This has been a constant phenomenon for the past decade except for last year when we did not find any, he said. Sightings of egg nests are gradually on the wane, he said adding sea turtles normally lay eggs after the monsoon high tide.
PM Narendra Modi
UDUPI: What do Pradeep Sangwan from Gurugram, Haryana, and Anudeep Hegde and Minusha Kanchan, a couple from Baindoor in Udupi, have in common? Although they stay miles apart, the common thread linking them is their concern for the environment. It is this singular essence of Swachh Bharat Abhiyan that gave Pradeep, and Anudeep and Minusha a place in the last edition of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ‘Mann Ki Baat’ radio show for 2020, on Sunday.
A 100-second mention of their efforts in the 32.20-minute address put these cleanliness warriors in the national limelight. If Pradeep’s Healing Himalaya initiative, that he is running since 2016, grabbed Modi’s attention, the fact that the newly wed couple gave up their honeymoon to clean Someshwar Beach in Udupi district, saw the PM narrate their effort in a cleanliness paean, which he said was the essence of a clean India.