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communications times!). The Save EIA and Mollem
regarding the same. Mollem

Campaign hosts The Environment Impact
So, what can we do? Assessment (EIA) study
regular tweet undertaken for the three

• If, like me, you storms to bring projects passing through
are of voting age, attention to the the protected area of
Bhagwan
Mahaveer
you can use this cause, which Wildlife Sanctuary and
template to email anyone with a Mollem National Park,
your local MLA twitter account does not speak about any
requesting them to can participate in. major impact on the
environment
and
represent our Above all, engage with biodiversity. It has
interests to the the people around you, proposed a series of mild
government. if share your memories mitigation measures,

not, send the link of Mollem, and keep claiming that the projects
be
will
crucial
a
to your parents, the conversation alive. developmental link for
older siblings and We have not lost yet. the nation. The EIA
friends who can, makes a specific
and encourage Further reference to iron ore
them to do the transportation to Bellari,
Karnataka. Despite the
same! links: fact that the projects

• You can sign this bifurcate the entire
petition and Magical Mollem: landscape of a
forward it to as Goa’s Green Heart: UNESCO-tagged,
“global
biodiversity
many people as https://bit.ly/3r52Rtp hotspot,” the EIA
possible. reports do not scrutinise

• The Save Mollem Damodar Mauzo for every potential impact of
Campaign group Mollem: the projects on the
environment,
has been https://bit.ly/389jfAb biodiversity and
organizing Goa is Dying: community as a whole.

several art and https://bit.ly/3gSGzGs For the purpose of
writing clearances, the mega
grid was broken down
competitions, Mollem Marta Ulle (a into piecemeal, low-

follow them on rap by Kabir Naik of impact projects instead
social media to 12 A which spreads of assessing them as a
keep updated on awareness about the cumulative whole. The
EIA reports that have
things you can destruction being been published are
participate in. caused to our riddled with
• There are several homeland): irregularities and have

protest marches https://bit.ly/38dKWb0 given rise to many
discrepancies. This is
happening across cause for concern as
Goa that you can these large, long term

join (though projects can have a
please keep larger and more
widespread impact than
Covid safety the reports let on.

restrictions in
mind at all -Vini Desai

Photograph: Meera Patel