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Chennai: How a restored wetland brought relief to residents in city's drought-prone area
FirstpostBy Kartik Chandramouli Venkatesh Kesav and his friends, equipped with gloves, spades, and dustbins, have a weekly ritual of cleaning a 10-acre pond in the Sholinganallur area in Chennai, the capital of Tamil Nadu. Care Earth Trust, a Chennai-based NGO that works on biodiversity conservation and particularly wetlands restoration, along with municipal authorities, corporates, and local groups, brought the pond back to life. Vasantha Raja, the project coordinator at Care Earth Trust, said, “Over two months, we collected around 180 tons of hyacinth using an excavator mounted on a floating barge. Image via Mongabay-India/ Care Earth Trust Wetlands crucial for water availability and stopping land degradation A wetland – lake, pond, reservoir, marsh, etc. Whatever restoration we do, we won’t be able to restore it 100 percent back to its original state.” Kumar said that while lack of coordination among the various departments for governing wetlands, their exclusion from land-use records and improper classification as wastelands are major conservation challenges, the bottom-up action taken by citizen groups and local organisations is a positive sign.
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