It is reported that Greenpeace activists staged a sit in outside TATA Group headquarters in Mumbai on Wednesday in protest against the company’s upcoming port at Dhamra in Orissa.

Around 70 protesters formed a human chain, their hands fastened with thick pipes. Some wore green turtle costumes. With juice bottles strapped to their bodies, they sat at each of the three entrances to the building. They sported the slogans, “Turtles over Turnover” and “Extinction is Forever”. The protests lasted for three hours. The police later removed the activists.

Greenpeace has been campaigning against the port which, it said, is too close to the nesting grounds of the highly endangered Olive Ridley turtles. They said that TATA Steel port JV will endanger olive ridley turtles in the area by damaging their nesting ground and wrecking biodiversity.

The protesters said they had written numerous letters to Mr Ratan Tata, Chairman of the Tata Group requesting him to change the location of the port but in vain and therefore they were forced to form a human chain in front of TATA headquarters.