Turtle nesting status 2011-12*
| Number of nests as of May 15 | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ratnagiri | ||||||
| Velas | 17 | |||||
| Kelshi | 5 | |||||
| Anjarla | 3 | |||||
| Dabhol | 1 | |||||
| Kolthare | 6 | |||||
| Guhagar | 7 | |||||
| Tavsal | 6 | |||||
| Raigad | ||||||
| Dive agar | 9 | |||||
| Maral | 8 | |||||
| Harihareshwar | 6 | |||||
| Total | 68 | |||||
News (Click news title for details)
Velas Turtle Festival 2012 has come to a close! Thank you all for making this festival such a great success.
Applications invited for the posts of Project Officer (Conservation) and Project Officer (Administration)
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The much awaited Festival returns!
The Turtle Festival will be held at Velas from Sunday, the 19th of February, 2012 till the time the hatchlings continue to emerge. Kindly confirm the tentative dates of hatchlings' emergence before visiting...
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What's new?
New pages : About Velas, News
About Velas: Each year Sahyadri Nisarga Mitra (SNM) organises a Turtle Festival in Velas. Velas is a small coastal village in Ratnagiri District (Maharashtra, India), learn more about Velas on 'About Velas' page.
News: To know more about SNM's events and activity related news go through ' News' page.
Annual Reports
Every year Sahyadri Nisarga Mitra (SNM) successfully implements all its programs such as Turtle Festival,
Campaigns through Kasav Mitra Mandal, Awareness programs in Schools, Marine Turtle Conservation Project etc.
Each year Sahyadri Nisarga Mitra (SNM) undertakes a systematic survey and creates scientific action plan for nature conservation. To know more about the project and related activities, read Annual Reports.
New page : Articles
SNM has regularly undertaken conservation and research projects for marine turtle, flora and fauna in the Konkan.
Also it is working on breeding biology of birds in the area and status survey of different bird species. SNM has published
scientific articles and reports regarding its projects.
Click here to read articles page.
Maharashtra Pakshi Ganana (Bird census)
Pakshi Ganana for the year 2011 was held from 22-Jan to 30-Jan all over Maharashtra.
Report is available on our sister site www.pakshimitra.org
SNM featured in Times of India
Click here to read articleMaharashtra Pakshi Mitra Sammelan 2010
Maharashtra Pakshi Mitra Sammelan 2010 was held on December 18th & 19th at Jalgaon, Maharashtra.
Information about Maharashtra Pakshi Mitra organization is available at:
http://www.pakshimitra.org/
Earlier...
Watch this short video clip (from YouTube.com) on the beginning of a young turtle's journey
to the sea.
Velas... a magical journey
Welcome to SAHYADRI!
Sahyadri Nisarga Mitra (SNM) is a leading non-government organization (NGO) in India, engaged in conservation of, education about and research on nature. In the year 1992, SNM started its work in the pristine region of Konkan on the western coast of Maharashtra state in India.
SNM has successfully organized various projects in nature conservation, protection and education with its limited resources.
Our current major projects include:
- Conservation of Marine Turtle
- Study of Whiterumped Vulture (Gyps bengalenses)
- Conservation of Indian Swiftlet (Collocalia unicolor)
- Study and conservation of Whitebellied Sea Eagle (Haliaeetus leucogaster)
- Breeding biology of some bird species