Satellite launch facility plan poses a threat to Hope Island’s ecosystem

The Andhra Pradesh authorities is readying its 2nd outer motorboat installation connected Hope Island, a 16‑kilometre‑long, tadpole‑shaped land disconnected the seashore of Kakinada. However, the land has been facing threats of coastal erosion owed to continuous dredging activities astatine Kakinada Port.

Formed astir a period ago, the tadpole‑shaped sandspit is simply a geological enactment created by sediment deposition from the Godavari and Coringa stream runoffs successful the Kakinada Bay area. “A period ago, the spit did not beryllium successful Kakinada Bay,” observes Kakani Nageswara Rao, Honorary Professor successful the Department of Geo‑Engineering astatine Andhra University, Visakhapatnam.