Celebrating with multiple stakeholders, the day marked in forming a joint collaboration with Nabard, various government agencies and communities to work together on managing resources of East Kolkata Wetlands, (EKW) a threatened Ramsar site of West Bengal. SAFE launched its première publication “GREEN Interpreters”, which is a Global Review for Environmental and Economic Negotiations in developing south.
Over 400 fishermen and women celebrated the day, with environmentalists and other stakeholders, the traditional chou dance kept them all enthralled. Lunch served four types of fishes, of EKW which were cooked in mustard sauce and coconut milk. We thank our partners, Kolkata Port Trust, Legal Options, Waterlife, Banglanatak.com and Natar Bheri Fishermen Cooperatives, and media.
SAFE aspired to make this day as an eye opener to all stakeholders of East Kolkata Wetlands, so that its immense significance in biodiversity richness and climate change are highlighted and awareness builds up in them. Today’s East Kolkata Wetlands are vanishing at an alarming rate of 1% per year and is being severely threatened by urban encroachment. This year too, SAFE received an enormous community response that called on combating the challenge of climate change by saving the precious Ramsar site. The event took place in Natar Bheri Fishermen’s cooperative at East kolkata Wetlands, where the ecotorism hub and wetland awareness center has been installed by SAFE under the aegis of the first BIORIGHTS project of India.
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