Archive for the ‘Nature’ Category

International Beach Clean-up day Observed at Kundapur

Environment degradation is one of the most development challenges today globally. Coastal area is one such vulnerable zone which gets environmentally degraded. In this backdrop, 19th September is set aside for beach clean-up day. As environment promotion is one of the important development programs, FSL India took a part in “International beach clean-up day” at [...]


Beach Cleaning Day

17th November 2010 Since last year FSL India and the Sanitation Project in Trasi are presenting the International Beach Cleaning Day with local people and volunteers. The Nirmala Grama Samithi (Sanitation Commitee) welcomed the numerous participants to keep the beach and the park clean. At first they meet for a strengthening snack and after welcome [...]


New postcard of Kundapura!

Because of the great interest in our first postcard we fulfilled the often voiced wish of printing another postcard. Now you can see Kundapura’s beautiful beaches, the backwaters and cultural events on one postcard. Is there a better way of sending personal greetings to your loved-ones? Visit the FSL Eco-office and get exclusive Kundapura postcards. [...]


Research in Kannada Kudru

Kannadakudru ,one of the Island in the backwater near Kundapur.  FSL India Eco tourism project is focusing on this island to develop Eco tourism . The most part of the area become a baren land because of non cultivation,the main reasons is lack of labour to cultivate the land (Last year some people ploughed the [...]


Save the Tigers

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Sea Turtle News

As part of our sea turtle project a huge green turtle weighing nearly 100 kilograms was spotted near Uppunda, 25 kilometers north of Kundapur. This turtle was accidentally caught in the fishing net of a fisherman here and he informed our new contact person Mr Kamalaksha who called the project immeadiatly. FSL sea turtle team [...]


Beach Cleaning in Maravanthe

Turtle bay beach resort and FSL India jointly organised World Beach Cleaning day at Maravanthe beach on 19th September. The program was partially sponsored by the Bangalore organisation called Scuba Dive. The event was planned to clean 1 kilometer area with FSL volunteers and local people. It was very sucessful with more number of participants [...]


Sea turtles in Orissa

Every year millions of olive ridleys are coming to the shore of the Bay of Bengal. It is known as the second biggest mass nesting area for turtles in the world. Nowadays the sea turtles are an endangered species. Commercial fish trawling is the main threat, because the turtles get trapped in the nets and [...]


Save Turtles…!!!

Since the beginning of June to till now FSL saved 5 injured sea turtles under the project area. Out of 5 protected turtles 3 are Olive Ridleys and 2 Green Turtles. On 27th of June our sea turtle co-ordinators Dinesh and Austin rescued a wounded green turtle and taken it to Dasi Kharvy for neccessary [...]


Apsarakonda falls

Apsara konda (Apsarakonda) is a small village near Honnavar, town in North Kanara district. Six km from Honnavar, is situated the Apsara Konda Falls. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honavar You can see a picture of the falls : http://gallery.holidaymakers.in/v/album02/Waterscapes-Karnataka/apsara-konda-honnavara.JPG.html I had been there last week and felt a urge to just jump in and take a dip. It is [...]