On the 23rd of December we opened our sixth nest with 145 eggs inside after it hatched successfully. It was quite a good nest as around half of the eggs hatched. What was surprising to all of us, was to find a living hatchling inside. And this hatchling was special as the back flippers were [...]
December month was one of the busiest month for whole FSL team. In this month we organised 3 different workshops in Kundapur, Mangalore and Bangalore areas for our new and current project contact persons. The workshop consisted the topics like, introduction of FSL India, BMZ Program, coordination system, roles and responsible of contact person, about [...]
Last month saw the first quarterly evaluation of this year’s new Weltwärts batch that arrived mostly in August and September. For some few volunteers, who arrived with Weltwärts in January, it was the second event. Weltwärts (“world-wards”) is a program by the German BMZ (Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development) that sends young, open-minded [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Namastey!! The Small House has hosted many number of work camp volunteers since the last 5 years. Small House is the first office of Kundapur FSL Center, it is right in the heart of Kundapur right in front of Kundeshwara Temple, where the name Kundapur originated. As per the experience of hundreds volunteers, for them, [...]
On Sunday 7th June 2009, some locals found a dead Olive Ridley turtle and called the Forest department. Mr Kiran Babu, Forester- from Kundapur range forest office rushed to the spot immediately and found the turtle has already dead. He brought that dead turtle to Daasi, FSL India’s main contact person, who informed to FSL [...]
Volunteers from Environment Education and Eco Club projects jointly organised sumer camp for the students of local public high school in Kundapur. It has started on 20th April 2009, inaugurated by the school Eco Club teacher. Sessions were on environment pollution situation, recycling system, energy and climate change. Also with this theoretical sessions volunteers took [...]
