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We work with the local non-governmental organizations and the community members to facilitate increased conservation activities. This is being done under a platform, “Mangroves for Resilience”. CeRCA organizes various training and consultation programmes so that there is increased awareness and larger sharing with various stakeholders. We have been organizing International Mangroves Day on July 26 every year to bring evidence from the field and share with the policy makers for necessary policy changes to carry forward community-based mangroves conservation activities.
Hansua river ecosystem has mangroves at its estuary, which is a habitat for wildlife and provides livelihood opportunities for the local communities. This also provides a safe habitat for the Olive Ridley Turtles at Gahirmatha. The anthropogenic activities had its impact on the mangroves ecosystem and many villages including Badakote was facing soil erosion and water inundation. Local community members in collaboration with Association for Protection of Wild Animals (APOWA) has started rebuilding the mangroves ecosystem which has brought in stabilization of soil and the conservation efforts have resulted in positive co-existence of human with nature. We continue to do research on this symbiotic relationship and has a plan to work on calculating the carbon sequestration.
The Jatadhar ecosystem is a sensitive coastal area which was famous as the Supercyclone of 1999 had its landfall causing huge devastation. The recent economic anthropogenic activities had its impact which resulted in the depletion of mangroves forest and recently community members in collaboration with local organization Sradha have started plantation activities. The plantation around the Kankan village has started showing positive results in terms on increase in the fish catch and arrival of other species. This field station is going to establish the fact about the protective role of mangroves during cyclones
Mahanadi estuary is a very dynamic ecosystem as it has coastal plain and gets influenced by the salt water with fresh water resulting from monsoon rainfall. It has a very diverse mangroves ecosystem but recent anthropogenic activities have impacted badly on this biodiversity. Increased awareness of the youths about the protective role of mangroves along the coast, youth groups under the leadership of Sattvic Soul Foundation have started plantation activities. The youth groups are focusing on the activities of beach cleaning and mangroves plantation. This is a very interesting field station for CeRCA as most of these conservation activities are undertaken through volunteering.
This ecosystem provides an opportunity to work on sandy beach as well as network of saline canals suitable for mangroves. This ecosystem is extremely vulnerable and the communities are under the threat of sea erosion. In order to address these vulnerabilities, local community members in collaboration with APOWA and Dadhibamanjiu Youth Club have started plantation of mangroves on the canal bunds and spinifex grass to stabilize the sand dunes. This is an active field station of CeRCA where we work with the youth and the women groups on plantation activities.
Balasore district is very vulnerable to disasters and gets impacted with cyclones. Rural Development Centre (RDC) is a non-governmental organization and has been working with the communities in rebuilding the coastal ecosystem to reduce the impact of natural hazards. CeRCA has initiated research collaboration with RDC to facilitate effective programme implementation so that the appropriate coastal ecosystem is rebuilt to address the vulnerabilities of the local communities.