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30/05/2026

As we stand at the cusp of marking six incredible years of Amche Mollem, this feels like a moment we need to pause, breathe deeply and reflect.

Over these years, this movement has carried all of us through so much. We have witnessed immense beauty and painful losses, together.

We have celebrated victories, sat with grief, lost our loved ones, built friendships, stood shoulder to shoulder through exhausting days, and continued showing up for our forests and for each other.

What began as resistance grew into something far larger, a living citizen movement held together by care, courage, community, and an unwavering love for Goa.

Through every march, meeting, artwork, song, legal battle, conversation, and act of solidarity, people pour their energy and hope into keeping this movement alive.

And because of that, it still thrives today.

We’ll be taking a pause on our social media pages over the coming days and reflecting on the extraordinary journey this movement has taken us on together.

Before stepping into another year of continued resistance and collective dreaming, this is a moment to look back at how far we’ve come and forward to the future we are still fighting to build, a Goa full of her forests, rivers, biodiversity, and it’s beautiful communities of people that refuse to give up on one another.

Stay tuned for updates as we step into our 6th year of Amche Mollem.

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30/05/2026

27/05/2026

Father Bolmax Pereira quietly became one of the many forces that nurtured a deeper relationship between young people and the land in Goa. Through the Chicalim Youth Farmers Club’s “You Sow, You Eat” initiative, students were invited into the fields not simply to learn about farming, but to understand care, patience, food systems and ecological responsibility through direct experience.

Under his mentorship, students from schools and colleges across Goa participated in every stage of cultivation, from preparing the soil and sowing seeds to harvesting seasonal vegetables and fruits. In a time where food often arrived disconnected from the labour, soil and ecosystems that sustained it, initiatives like these became deeply important acts of reconnection.

Father Bolmax’s approach bridged science, environmental stewardship and community learning in ways that felt accessible and grounded. His guidance encouraged students to understand soil health, plant growth and sustainability not as abstract concepts, but as living relationships shaped through touch, observation and responsibility.

Through and his years of mentorship, he sowed seeds of environmental consciousness and agricultural pride in younger generations, leaving behind a legacy rooted in care for both people and the land.

The land and it’s people shall never forget, and will always remember 💔

Fr Bolmax holding remembered here - holding a propagule and wearing a shirt that says plant more mangroves. Photo by

26/05/2026

A guardian has fallen.

Fr. Bolmax was a rare soul, the kind who comes once in a generation. His presence was quiet but seismic, the sort that shifts the ground beneath a movement and the hearts of everyone in it.

His passing is a loss felt across all species: human beings, animals, reptiles, plants, fungi, insects, and so much more. It is mourned by the seas, the hills, the rivers, and most of all by the forests, the farmlands, and the mangroves he fought so fiercely to protect. The land itself feels lighter without him, and heavier all at once.

Fr. Bolmax, thank you for lighting the way for young people and adults alike. Thank you for showing us that to love Goa is to defend her soil, her songs, her people. Thank you for every single thing you did, and for everything you stood for.

We hold close the legacy you leave behind, and the words and dance of Jerusalema, the song that became our anthem of hope, resistance, and victory during the movement:

Ndawo yami ayikho lana (My place is not here)
Mbuso wami awukho lana (My kingdom is not here)
Ngilondoloze (Guard me, protect me)
Uhambe nami (Walk with me)
Zungangishiyi lana (Do not leave me here)

Walk with us still, Father. We will keep guarding what you loved.

Rest in power. 🌿

18/05/2026

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Scientist Share May 2026
5:30 pm - 6:45 pm
Fri, 22 May 2026

Join with Google Meet: https://meet.google.com/svf-nxcp-dev

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16/05/2026

Scientist share is back with an exciting new session with

Don’t forget to tune in!

Scientist Share May 2026
5:30 pm - 6:45 pm
Fri, 22 May 2026

Join with Google Meet: https://meet.google.com/svf-nxcp-dev

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13/05/2026

In the past months, we have put out information on the shortcomings of Wildlife Institute of India (WII)’s Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) for the railway double-tracking project through Mollem National Park and Kali Tiger Reserve. We shared gaps in assessments on plants and fungi, insects and arachnids, freshwater fish, herpetofauna, birds and mammals.

In our final post of this EIA series, we want to point out a critical gap not only in this EIA or EIAs in general, but in the way we think of forests and wildlife altogether. Here we highlight a group that is almost always ignored, misrepresented and left out of decision making - people.

People living along the railway line in Velsao, Arossim, Pale were left out when the RVNL decided to double the railway line on their land; people who have lived in the lush forests of Mollem for generations have had their rights ignored for years. And now the RVNL through this EIA is trying to misrepresent facts to all of us.

Based on academic literature and research reports, with an understanding that humans are part of nature and ecology, here’s what was left out in the WII EIA.

Keep reading and sharing.



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20/04/2026

In the past few months, we have been sharing taxa-wise information on what went missing in the Wildlife Institute of India (WII)'s Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) for the railway double-tracking project through Mollem National Park and Kali Tiger Reserve.

In the last of the taxa series, we have the Mammals section. Read about all the species documented in their camera trap-only survey, and all the species that remain to be documented.

Keep reading and sharing. 🐯🐯🐯 Our voices are making a difference!



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11/04/2026

🚨Campaign Update🚨

In the past few months, we have been sharing about the critical gaps in Wildlife Institute of India’s (WII) new EIA. The ‘cumulative impact assessment’ submitted by WII involves the doubling of the railway line through and Kali Tiger Reserve—both part of the Western Ghats, a global biodiversity hotspot.

Despite claims of being more comprehensive, the WII EIA repeats many shortcomings of the previous EIA. Check our previous posts and future posts as we cover these by theme.

In a meeting held on 26th March 2026, the Regional Empowered Committee (REC) of the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEFCC) echoed our concerns and flagged the WII EIA for it being restricted to recommending mitigation measures, rather than a comprehensive and rigorous assessment of ecological impacts of the project within the Protected Areas.

Additionally, the REC directed that the WII EIA be placed before the State Board for Wildlife (SBWL) and National Board for Wildlife (NBWL) or the Central Empowered Committee (CEC) for consideration, before submission to the REC.

The REC taking notice of the WII’s failures is an important win for all of us. The SBWL and the NBWL must know that WE ARE ALL WATCHING!

Keep sharing and stay tuned for more updates.

01/04/2026

Taking flight from reality: How the Wildlife Institute of India’s (WII) Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) in the proposed Railway Double-tracking through Bhagwan Mahavir Wildlife Sanctuary (BMWLS), Mollem National Park, and Kali Tiger Reserve (KTR) misidentifies, misreports and excludes bird species and their habitats.

Critical bird habitats (for nesting, roosting, etc) were not identified in the EIA despite being a part of its objectives. Of the 125 valid species observed, 18 (14.4%) fall under Schedule I and 105 (84%) under Schedule II of the Wildlife Protection Act. However, this legal conservation status was not reported for any of the species.

Several of the reported species don’t even exist in the study region. The Fork-tailed Drongo (Dicrurus adsimilis) is an Afro-tropical species - but is mentioned six times! The Greater Flameback (Chrysocolaptes lucidus), reported thrice, is endemic to the Philippines.

The report claims that four Long-tailed Minivets (Pericrocotus ethologus) were observed - but this species has no known distribution south of Madhya Pradesh. The Indian Yellow Tit (Machlolophus aplonotus) was called Periparus ater, which refers to the Himalayan Coal Tit, not a species known from Goa. Square-tailed Bulbul (Hypsipetes ganeesa) was listed as Hypsipetes leucocephalus, the name for the Himalayan Black Bulbul. The Green Warbler (Phylloscopus nitidus) and Greenish Warbler (Phylloscopus trochiloides) were both listed with high counts but referred to by the same scientific name, Phylloscopus nitidus, indicating misidentification or reporting error.

Common species such as the Malabar Barbet (Psilopogon malabaricus) and Jungle Babbler (Turdoides striata) were notably absent from the EIA and have possibly been misidentified with similar species such as the Coppersmith Barbet (Psilopogon haemacephalus) and the Yellow-billed Babbler (Turdoides affinis) respectively.

Such egregious mistakes in one of the most well documented and well studied taxa are entirely unacceptable and bring into question the integrity of the entire EIA.

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