#3/07 Stop Port Construction; Save Ridley Sea Turtles / India   Region: Asia

This Global Response Action was issued at the request of and with information provided Operation Kachhapa, the Orissa Traditional Fishworker’s Union (OTFWU); Greenpeace India; and the WILD Foundation. For Greenpeace’s critique of the Dhamra port EIA, see www.greenpeace.org/india/press/reports/critique-of-the-environmental. For more on the U.N.’s Global Compact, see www.unglobalcompact.org/ and on the Precautionary Principle, see www.iucn.org/themes/law/pdfdocuments/LN250507_PPGuidelines.pdf and www.precaution.org/lib/pp_def.htm. Ridley Turtle Photo Credits Bivash Pandav.