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Welcome to Mangalajodi Ecotourism

A community owned and managed wildlife conservation venture, Mangalajodi Ecotourism is your destination to get a peep into Mother Nature. Mangalajodi is a village located on the northern banks of Chilika Lake in Odisha, ‘The Bird’s Paradise’ hosts more than 3,00,000 birds in its marshy waters, especially in winters. Mangalajodi also represents one of its kind ecosystems, whose protection is epitomised by a sustainable lifestyle that is at a brink of extinction in urban settings.

At the heart of Managalajodi, Ecotourism is the democratic notion that fragile ecosystems like these belong to everyone and their protection is important. Any deterioration of these will affect us directly or indirectly.

Mangalajodi Ecotourism aims to inspire, inform and enable communities to turn ecosystems into a sustainable source of livelihood through well managed low impact tourism instead of exploiting them for short term profits. Conservation of wetland ecosystem and its avifauna is the key of the whole initiative.

Awards And Recognition

Indian Responsible Tourism Award		Winner of 14th UNWTO Awards for innovation in Enterprise 2018

India Biodiversity Awards Runner Up 2014		RBS Earth Hero Awards 2012

Partners of the Ecotourism Intervention

RBS Foundation India		Indian Grameen Services
RBS Foundation India, (The Royal Bank of Scotland Group) has been actively providing support the vulnerable and underprivileged communities in India and support projects that enhance existing, or create new, livelihood opportunities for these communities. The Foundation lays a special focus on communities dependent on critical ecosystem resources and natural resources and so the communities who typically reside in or around fragile forest/grassland/mangrove/wetland eco systems or are dependent on scarce water and degraded land resources. To make Mangalajodi Ecotourism initiative sustainable, RBS Foundation has extended support to its implementing partner Indian Grameen Services.		Indian Grameen Services (IGS) is the non-profit affiliate of the BASIX Social Enterprise Group, registered under Section 25 of the Companies Act in 1987.  The Mission of IGS is “Incubating Innovation for Pro poor sustainable livelihoods”. The Vision is “Kayam Rojgar-Khushal Pariwar”(nearest meaning in English is Sustainable Livelihoods – Prosperous Household. As a premier Livelihood Institution, Indian Grameen Services is working with more than 2 million households across 24 Indian states including Odisha.