{"id":110511,"date":"2026-03-13T15:44:17","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T10:14:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/?p=110511"},"modified":"2026-03-13T15:44:17","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T10:14:17","slug":"goa-foundation-to-release-fifth-edition-of-fish-curry-and-rice-landmark-book-on-goas-ecology-on-march-14","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/?p=110511","title":{"rendered":"Goa Foundation to release fifth edition of &#8216;Fish, Curry and Rice&#8217; landmark book on Goa\u2019s ecology on March 14"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Goa Khabar : Goa Foundation (GF) will be releasing the fifth edition of their landmark, environmental book, \u201cFish, Curry and Rice\u201d at the hands of Justice Ferdino Rebello at the Kala Academy, Panaji on Saturday, March 14 at 3pm. The event is free and open to the public.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In a media release issued in the city on Friday, Claude Alvares, co-founder of the Goa Foundation said, \u201cThe 400-page, fully revised and expanded fifth edition brings together contributions from naturalists, wild lifers, artists, lawyers, photographers, cartographers, life scientists and social activists, creating a rich portrait of Goa\u2019s landscapes and the many struggles to protect them.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">First published in 1993, \u201cFish Curry and Rice\u201d became a landmark guide to the ecological foundations of Goa\u2019s way of life. The book explores the natural systems that sustain the state \u2014 its rivers, forests, fields, coastlines and biodiversity \u2014 while documenting the citizen movements that have worked to defend them.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The launch event will include a felicitation of 16 of Goa\u2019s environmental defenders which will precede the release. The event will conclude with a special lecture by Justice Gautam Patel, retired judge of the Bombay High Court, who has always advocated the urgent need to protect Goa\u2019s fragile ecology.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The book will be on sale, proceeds of which will fund Goa Foundation\u2019s ecological battles in the days to come.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Goa Khabar : Goa Foundation (GF) will be releasing the fifth edition of their landmark, environmental book, \u201cFish, Curry and Rice\u201d at the hands of Justice Ferdino Rebello at the Kala Academy, Panaji on Saturday, March 14 at 3pm. The event is free and open to the public.\u00a0 In a media release issued in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25169,"featured_media":110512,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[155,6],"tags":[3794],"class_list":["post-110511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-155","category-6","tag-featured"],"read":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/25169"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=110511"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110511\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":110513,"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110511\/revisions\/110513"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/110512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=110511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=110511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=110511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}