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Tarak Patel
Co-founderFounder of ReefWatch Marine Conservation
Tarak Patel is the co-founder of ReefWatch Marine Conservation[1], an Indian non-profit working on environment and animals from Mumbai.
ReefWatch Marine Conservation
ReefWatch Marine Conservation restores coral reefs in the Andaman & Nicobar Islands and runs a marine megafauna stranding-response network along the coasts of Karnataka and Goa.
ReefWatch Marine Conservation reports the following, on its own site:
- Attended 494 marine animal stranding cases in FY 2024-25 — 336 in Goa, 70 in Karnataka and 88 during a mass stranding event in Chennai — of which 181 were live animals.
- Engaged 2,966 students aged 10 to 18 through workshops, presentations and field trips across its Andaman, Goa and Karnataka bases in FY 2024-25.
- Guarded 14 sea turtle nests and released 696 hatchlings safely to sea in FY 2024-25, and retrieved 9.5 tonnes of ghost nets.
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- Mumbai
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References
- [1] “CO-FOUNDER” — ReefWatch Marine Conservation. Source
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