Soumya Ranjan Biswal

Soumya Ranjan Biswal

UN-India YuWaah Advocate 🇺🇳🇮🇳 | Youth Climate Leader | SDG 14 | Limca Book Record | Founder: OPSA TRUST | Conserving Mangroves and Sea Turtles at Indian Coastline

Puri, Odisha, India
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I belong to a coastal fishing community of Odisha's Puri district. I have grown up watching a gradual but alarming decline in marine turtles and mangroves. So I decided to make their conservation a mass movement, for which we friends formed Odisha Paryavaran Sanrakshan Abhiyan (OPSA) in 2014, and got it registered as a charitable trust in 2019.


Work Experience: 
▪  Engage in Endangered Olive Ridley Sea Turtle and their habitat conservation in devi river mouth and rushikulya river mouth area of odisha.
▪  Community led networking to check wildlife poaching, wildlife trade.
▪  Mangrove and wetland biodiversity conservation, restoration, monitering and protection since 2014
▪ Facillating youth led wildlife and biodiversity conservation in Nayagarh, Puri , Jagatsingpur, Ganjam district.
▪ Education to community members,School students and Youths.
▪  Experience in working with researchers from various institutions on marine conservation in Odisha. 
▪  Facilitating well hatchery management trainings to Govt. and NGOs working for sea turtle conservation. 
▪  Working hand in hand with youth volunteers for the wildlife & biodiversisty consrevation work. 
▪  Working on House sparrow conservation actvities in Nayagarh district with Forest Deptt.
▪  Working on Forest Fire Awareness, promoting education in tribal area,promoting organic farming in tribal area of Nayagarh District with coordination of Nayagarh Forest Division.
▪  State level annual cycling event on Sea Turtle Conservation and ocean pollution covering all the community villages and schools along the entire odisha coast since 2019.
▪  Story telling sessions with coastal women community & fisheri community regarding CLIMATE CHANGE
Affiliation/Position:
▪  Founder, Odisha Paryavaran Sanrakshan Abhiyan 

Awards and Recognitions Received: 

▪  Recognized by UN-INDIA among 17 Young Climate Leaders of India

▪  Limca book of record for Marine Turtle Conservation & Ocean Pollution Awareness

▪  Hon’Ble Chief Minister, Odisha 

▪  Hon’Ble Shri Dharmendra Pradhan,Higher education minister, India

▪  Hon’Ble Union Forest Minister 

▪  Sub-Divisional Biju Patnaik Wildlife Award-2021 by Puri Wildlide Division, Govt. of odisha  

▪  Hon’Ble Forest Minister, Govt. of odisha 

▪  Dakshin Foundation

▪  Atma Nirbhar Bharat & Mann Ki Baat portal of Govt. of india 

▪  English Daily The Indian Express among top 40 Inspiring Eco-sapiens of India

▪  Berhmpur Forest Division

▪  Chilika Wildlife Division 

 

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    Youth Advocate India

    United Nations

    - Present 2 years 1 month

    Odisha, India

    I Soumya Ranjan Biswal, belonging from a remote coastal village of odisha namely Gundalaba of Puri District in Odisha. My village is about 500mtr from the shore just next to a small wide of casurina Forest.


    When I was in primary education in 2006, a retired dentist namely Robert Succlif from Canada was used to come in our area and were taking our school students to beach for beach cleanup drive. It was a continuous event by him everyyear. 


    When I grown up to my high…

    I Soumya Ranjan Biswal, belonging from a remote coastal village of odisha namely Gundalaba of Puri District in Odisha. My village is about 500mtr from the shore just next to a small wide of casurina Forest.


    When I was in primary education in 2006, a retired dentist namely Robert Succlif from Canada was used to come in our area and were taking our school students to beach for beach cleanup drive. It was a continuous event by him everyyear. 


    When I grown up to my high school, the gradual increase of natural calamities , particularly tsunami & cyclone frequency has caused to evacuate & warn me and my villages 2 or 3 times everyyear. 


    The inspiring atmosphere of the two devoted Grassroot Conservationist Bichi Bhaiya and Charu Maa , inspired me much to think about its protection for our future.


    To show our local climatic issues, turtle mortalities, Mangrove destructions , I was sharing in social media.  I met he You tubers cum Ecology educator Abhyuday Rajib Kelkar in facebook and he have started guiding me through the geographical existence of our area , Devi River Mouth area and it's importance and he told we need to take responsibility and youth have that much power who can bring changes to this issue. As per constant motivation of Abhyudaya Rajiv Kelkar ji , i started the movement. 


    When I got to know it's all happening for the global warming and climate change, I just went through the Deeper to know about its reason and solutions. I just got sure that Coastal Biodiversity has been disturbing , so Biodiversity conservation is one key to tackle the climate change.



    We focus on conservational issues of regional importance, for example, Olive Ridley sea-turtles and Mangroves in our state, Odisha.

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    Odisha Paryavaran Sanrakshan Abhiyan

    - Present 10 years 5 months

    Orissa, India

    Tireless and desperate efforts of odisha's youth to save forests , wildlife and natural wealth of Odisha, particularly the olive ridley turtle and mangroves.

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