Today (22 April 2011). There are two photographs of Cat island in the pages of the Hindu. they look like the before and after pictures in a VLCC advert, only reversed! The before is a lush green lake area with many winged visitors, egrets, pond herons etc, the after is the aftermath of a oil slick wash up. A pathetic grey dirty landscape more sickening for its monotony of texture than absence of birds or grass. When is Chennai going to hear this wake up call to protect its vanishing green cover?
Yesterday's post on my blog had some pictures of the Pallikaranai marsh that resembled the Cat island pictures very closely, happily they looked like the healthy one. But already troughs are being dug around the edges, how long before the concrete overtakes and buries the reeds of the marsh?
In March 2011, there was a fire in fifteen places on the marsh that destroyed a lot of the bird life and greenery. Will the government take steps to protect the marsh. One organisation that is involved in protecting this marsh is Care Earth. Care Earth represented in this case by Ranjith Daniels, is an organisation involved in educating and training tribals around TN in matters of conservation. In the case of the Pallikaranai Marsh, they work with the TN Pollution control board.
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