Turtle Festival

Turtle festival is arranged by Forest Department, Village Panchayat, Kasav Mitramandal. Please call at respective villages directly to know about the festival dates and other details.

  • Sahyadri Nisarga Mitra (SNM) started Marine turtle conservation first time in Maharashtra.
  • In the year 2002 SNM started actual protection work for Olive Ridley (Lepidochelys olivacea) in Velas, a tiny village on northernmost boundary of district Ratnagiri. Within a short span of time, SNM spread the protection work to entire coast of Maharashtra state, that's about 720 km of coastline in all.
  • 1st year, SNM undertook protection work in 1 village and successfully protected 50 nests.
  • SNM with its limited resources is trying its level best to protect marine turtles and empower villagers.
 

Kindly contact the following home stay providers for more details

Name

Contact No. (Velas STD Code: 02350)

Mrs. Kavita Bagkar

220682

Ms. Priyanka Bhole

220689

Mr. Swapnil Dhareepkar

220562

Mr. Prakash Joshi 

220570

Mr. Santosh Joshi 

220511

Mr. Abhijit Kulabkar

220694
(M) 
8975939484 / 8983774809

Mr. Sham Kulabkar

220594

Mr. Siddhesh Kulabkar

9325779768 / 9373583781 

Mr. Omkar Nijasure

220329 / 28 / 25

83083 60387 

Mr. Milind Nijsure

220629/9421188487

Mr. Sameer Padlekar

7620694013 / 8669469980 / 888517268

Mr. Mandar Palshetkar

220674

Ms. Namrata Palshetkar

9579891025 / 8655891918     

Mr. Nandkishor Patil

220561

Mr. Surendra Patil

220351/9225144816

 

Mr. Subodh Saldurkar

8975633185/7743830532

Mr. Amol soman 

220279/9403574183

Mr. Ameya Srivardhankar

8446789618 / 7498359368

Mr. Mohan Upadhye 

220304/8975622778/

8983767388

Mr. Avinash Yadav

220545

These members serve pure vegetarian food