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===Dhamra Port, Odisha=== The [[Port of Dhamara]] has received significant coverage, sparking controversy in India, and in Tata's emerging global markets.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ethicalcorp.com/content.asp?ContentID=5515 |title=India β Tata in troubled waters β Ethical Corporation |publisher=Ethicalcorp.com |date=November 2007 |access-date=16 July 2010 |archive-date=15 April 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080415213556/http://www.ethicalcorp.com/content.asp?ContentID=5515 |url-status=live }}</ref> The Dhamra port, an equal joint venture between Tata Steel and [[Larsen & Toubro]], has been criticised for its proximity to the Gahirmatha Sanctuary and [[Bhitarkanika National Park]] by Indian and international organisations, including [[Greenpeace]]; [[Gahirmatha Beach]] is one of the world's largest mass nesting sites for the [[olive ridley turtle]], and India's second largest mangrove forest, [[Bhitarkanika]], is a designated [[Ramsar site]], and critics claimed that the port could disrupt mass nesting at Gahirmtha beaches as well as the ecology of the Bitharkanika mangrove forest.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://greenpeace.in/turtle/category/docs |title=Documents And Reports | Save the turtles |publisher=Greenpeace.in |date=12 June 2009 |access-date=16 July 2010 |archive-date=6 July 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100706184809/http://greenpeace.in/turtle/category/docs |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.thaindian.com/newsportal/enviornment/sea-dredging-affecting-olive-ridley-turtles-says-green-body_10034689.html |title=Sea dredging affecting Olive Ridley turtles, says green body |publisher=Thaindian.com |date=5 April 2008 |access-date=16 July 2010 |archive-date=4 October 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081004093953/http://www.thaindian.com/newsportal/enviornment/sea-dredging-affecting-olive-ridley-turtles-says-green-body_10034689.html |url-status=live }}</ref> Tata Steel employed mitigation measures set by the project's official advisor, the [[International Union for Conservation of Nature]] (IUCN), and the company pledged to "adopt all its recommendations without exception" when conservation organisations asserted that a thorough environmental impact analysis had not been done for the project, which had undergone changes in size and specifications since it was first proposed.<ref>[https://www.tatasteel.com/media/3080/ccr-2010-11.pdf Tata Steel] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170908091804/http://www.tatasteel.com/media/3080/ccr-2010-11.pdf |date=8 September 2017 }} "Corporate Citizenship Report 2010/2011", TataSteel.com, 2011, page 20. Retrieved October 24, 2018.</ref>
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