Activists agitating for the relocation of the Tata Group's Dhamra project to save the Olive Ridley turtles It was a sight to behold at the seafront near Mumbai Port Trust garden, opposite Bakhtawar building at Colaba. Volunteers from Greenpeace lit thousands of candles there, in a bid to attract the attention of the occupant of the sea-facing flat number 163 of the Bakhtawar building, the Tata Group Chairman, Ratan Tata. According to Ashish Fernandes, Oceans Campaigner with Greenpeace, the candle-lit protest was to ask Tata to shift his company's upcoming port project from Dhamra, Orissa in order to save the Olive Ridley sea turtles that have their nesting ground on the Gahirmatha beach there. "The candles symbolise the growing number of concerned people who have written to Ratan Tata via a cyber petition, asking him to relocate the port and not the turtles. However, we haven't received any response from him so far,' he said. The Dhamra port lies 15 kilometre away from Gahirmatha beach, which is one of the three largest nesting grounds for the species in the world, and less than five kilometre away from the Bhitarkanika Sanctuary that is India's second largest mangrove forest and home to saltwater crocodiles. Fernandes said that the ongoing dredging work that started in late 2007 at Dhamra was adversely affecting the mass nesting period of the turtles and the ecology of that area. "The environment report of the project does not adequately mention the impact of the port on the turtles. Scientists and conservationists are opposed to the port and have warned that the port activity will be detrimental to the environment.' Curious residents of Bakhtawar peeped out from their windows, some even taking photographs from their high-rise flats. "We have been protesting about the project since the past three years. However, this is the first time that we have actually gathered in front of Ratan Tata's House to protest,' Fernandes said.