Dahanu in India to build centre dedicated to turtle conservation
If all goes as planned Dahanu, could soon boast of a first of its kind state-of-the-art awareness and research centre dedicate to turtles, which would be set up close to the Dahanu beach. The centre will itself be designed in the shape of a giant green sea turtle.
Members of NGO Wildlife Conservation and Animal Welfare Association (WCAWA) who jointly run the turtle treatment and transit centre along with forest department at Dahanu beach, gave a detailed presentation to Principal Secretary (Forest) Vikas Kharge who on April 28 visited the centre.
Rahul Marathe, Range Forest Officer (RFO), Dahanu said that the Principal Secretary (Forest) was impressed with the facility and during the presentation, both upgrading of the existing transit centre and setting up of the new awareness centre was discussed at length. “He has asked us to procure sophisticated medical instruments including X-Ray machines and upgrade the transit centre. Also for awareness centre, we will be preparing a detailed proposal soon,” he said.
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