How nine women are helping save India’s mangroves – with foraging and eco-tours

by Mason Walker on Sep 26, 2022 Computers 413 Views

On a hot summer afternoon along the Mandavi River, Shweta Hule wraps her sari around her ankles and bends to her foraging, picking wild “weeds” from the creek and dropping them into a bowl. The plants will be made into fritters, to be served at the little restaurant attached to the B&B Hule manages in the Indian coastal town of Vengurla.

Wild edibles are common in kitchens here. Hule’s weed is sea purslane (Sesuvium portulacastrum) – known as khari or gole bhaji – a succulent that blooms with pink flowers and is found in mangrove forests. Harvesting some of the plant is helping conserve the mangroves, a globally endangered ecosystem of salt-tolerant trees that stop coastal erosion and absorb storm damage.

Hule is head of Swamini, a self-help group set up by nine women from this fishing community in Maharashtra who started Mandavi Eco Tourism in 2017. They came up with the idea of running mangrove safaris for tourists in Vengurla’s Mandavi creek. And now, as they research their own community’s history, they are rediscovering the edible wild plants around them.

 

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