Today, on World Reef Day, take a wander by a city’s shoreline to commemorate and conclude a stress of a diverse, abounding sea life
An Indo-Pacific sea plume, ordinarily famous as Gorgonian sea fan
Mumbai’s shoreline is mostly looked during as unwashed and polluted, though notwithstanding all going against, it is home to abounding sea life. In a past few years, a city’s coastal life has taken a new form. This was done probable by several citizen-led organisations that try to preserve and teach people to strengthen these frail ecosystems. In jubilee of World Reef Day, a folks from Marine Life of Mumbai (MLOM), along with a Mangrove Foundation, are holding a seaside travel during Haji Ali. MLOM is a flagship plan underneath a Coastal Conservation Foundation (CCF).
A formerly conducted seaside travel in a city
The travel will start with an introduction to coral habitats and then, demeanour for sea life vital in a intertidal zone. Here, participants can design to mark sea anemones, gastropods, oysters and sea slugs. “We aim to deliver people to a city’s immeasurable sea biodiversity. Our shores, notwithstanding a wickedness and bad H2O quality, are home to implausible sea life. It’s not odd to find octopuses, sea slugs, and even corals on a shores.
False sham coral is a class of reef-building corals that can be found during some of Mumbai’s shores. PICS COURTESY/SHAUNAK MODI
To save something, one contingency initial know that it exists. Our work is not usually about familiarising people with sea life, but also formulating clever voices in their support,” explains Shaunak Modi, co-founder of CCF. He adds that in annoy of a oppressive conditions combined by humans; we still have an contentment of animals vital along a shores.
Sea fans of a Plexauridae family speckled along Mumbai’s coastline
Manas Manjrekar, Mangrove Foundation’s emissary executive of investigate and ability building, shares, “Many people might not associate a city of Mumbai with corals and other sea life, though a seashore of this city has a abounding and charming biodiversity that includes intertidal corals, zoanthids, sponges, octopuses, sea fans, and more. We collaborated with a CCF to organize a seaside travel during a Haji Ali intertidal segment to lift recognition about this frail ecosystem.”
Manas Manjrekar
Initiatives like seaside walks, he says, will assistance bother people’s seductiveness in sea life. It will also lift open recognition about these dark wealth abounding along a city’s coastline. Many class of fish including cetaceans such as humpback dolphins and finless porpoises consecrate an critical partial of Mumbai’s sea life. “A healthy ecosystem will means a healthy fish population, that in spin will assistance thousands of livelihoods that are contingent on it,” Manjrekar signs off.
On: Jun 1; 7 am to 8.30 am
Meeting Point: Outside Haji Ali Dargah, Dargah Road.
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Call: 7021055507
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