Navelims

Bridging the generational and gender gap: Navelim’s Estella Pires trains people to climb coconut trees
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Bridging the generational and gender gap: Navelim’s Estella Pires trains people to climb coconut trees

With the older generation of Goan toddy tappers and coconut pluckers retiring, this agro-entrepreneur hopes to entice a new generation…

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Navelim’s agricultural renaissance: 35 years on, farmers and community join forces to reclaim fallow fields
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Navelim’s agricultural renaissance: 35 years on, farmers and community join forces to reclaim fallow fields

MARGAO: In a milestone that marks the end of a 35-year-long hiatus, the long-abandoned fields surrounding Saipem lake in Navelim…

Navelim’s shame: Once-pristine rivulet now a filthy nullah choked with dirty diapers, chicken carcasses
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Navelim’s shame: Once-pristine rivulet now a filthy nullah choked with dirty diapers, chicken carcasses

Local residents have resolved to take the authorities to task over the contamination of the water body

Wild and free: Navelim’s award-winning snake-catcher Julio Quadros has made conservation his life’s mission
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Wild and free: Navelim’s award-winning snake-catcher Julio Quadros has made conservation his life’s mission

Having survived a deadly bite from a Russel’s Viper at age 7, Quadros has now spent the past 18 years…

With no support from Fisheries Dept, Navelim’s mobile fish van shuts shop
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With no support from Fisheries Dept, Navelim’s mobile fish van shuts shop

"Without the support from the fisheries department, it was difficult to compete in an uneven playing field,” said Joseph Vaz,…

Navelim’s unique Ganapati-Murugan temple
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Navelim’s unique Ganapati-Murugan temple

Hailed as the first temple in Goa which houses the twin deities of Ganesh and Murugan inside one temple and…