Colva: On June 6 – World Environment Day, Minister of Environment Nilesh Cabral visited Cavelossim Beach where he was shown by the site by the Cave Biodiversity Council officials where Dune sand restoration work occurred with the help of former NIO Antonio Mascarenha scientist.
The minister was told that the sand mound was leveled by a hoteler.
Twenty-three days later, the pile of garbage washed to Fatrade Beach was seen dumped in a sandbow.
Video recordings from garbage on the beach become viral with urgent people to help clean them.
Some villagers also come together and do their bits to collect the same.
Mascarenhas, who expreted the idea of the Dune Pasir park, where the World Bank has gave sanctions Rs 3 Crore for five stretches of the coast, said, “We try to recover and save sand dunes, but government institutions do the opposite.” He said all this year, Goan Beach got a direct blow from the waves when the wind was perpendicular to the beach.
“The garbage thrown into the river and the body of the water found the road to the sea.
Because of the turbulence, it was washed ashore,” he said.
“The scientific way is to separate it.
Throw it on the dunes or behind vegetation is an open violation of all environmental regulations.
A large number of waste scattered in the bushes and is now covered with sand that was blown by the wind,” said Mascarenhas.
Meanwhile, Nelson Fernandes, an officer about a special task to the Minister of Tourism said that he had directed the Karnataka Commercial beach cleaning agent and Industrial Corporation (KCIC) to clean up the waste in two working days.
Goa: Waste mounds affect the revival of Dunes Cavelossim
