DARK SECRETS: Chilika loc - The Real Truth

What a Ramsar Listing Actually Obliges India to Do for a Wetland

India's 75th Ramsar site was announced with the kind of fanfare that accompanies a record broken. What followed the announcement, in most cases, was silence, not because nothing was required, but because the requirements are poorly understood outside the small circle of wetland ecologists who track them. The Ramsar Convention…

Times Life · 7h ago

Tranquebar, Pulicat and Sadras: A Coastal Drive Through the Coromandel's European Past

Why the Coromandel Coast Reads Differently from the SouthMost people drive the East Coast Road south from Chennai toward Mahabalipuram and stop there. The older story runs north and south of that corridor, in towns so small they appear on maps only as dots. Tranquebar, Pulicat and Sadras each belonged…

Times Life · Oct 18

Chilika Lake's Hidden Biodiversity: The Aquatic Species Living in India's Largest Coastal Lagoon

A Lake That Is Not Quite a LakeChilika is a brackish water lagoon, not a freshwater lake, and that distinction is the biological engine behind everything that lives in it. Spread across roughly 1,100 square kilometres along the Odisha coast, it sits at the meeting point of the Mahanadi river…

Times Life · Aug 26

Young Indians help revive coastal towns reeling from climate change

Chilika Lake, the largest brackish water lagoon in the Indian state of Odisha, is a prominent biodiversity hotspot along the east coast with thousands of migratory birds visiting from different parts of the world every year.

Radio France Internationale · Nov 27, 2022

World’s first fishing cat census done in Chilika

Chilika Lake has 176 fishing cats, a globally threatened species, says the estimation

The Hindu · Jun 5, 2022

Chilika lake’s dolphin population falls

But the overall dolphin population in Odisha increases from 544 to 726 in a year

The Hindu · Mar 31, 2022