Pichavaram in Tamil Nadu, the world's second largest mangrove forest, offers rich biodiversity, boat rides, birdwatching, and accessible from Chennai and Pondicherry. Visitors explore diverse ...

Chennai: You can be forgiven if you didn’t know about Pichavaram mangrove forest despite it being the world’s second largest mangrove jungle (the Sundarbans National Park in West Bengal is the largest ...

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Mangroves reduce coastal incursion, seawater ingress, sea-level rise, cyclonic storms and tsunamis. Natural ecosystems such as mangroves, sand dunes, coral reefs, submarine rocks and seagrass came to ...

Pichavaram Mangroves in Tamil Nadu is the second-largest mangrove forest globally, covering more than 1,100 hectares. Visitors can explore the area via boat, travelling through the dense, intricate ...

Chennai: The coastal Ecological Sensitive Areas (ESA), which act as protective shields during natural calamities like tsunami and cyclones, are in distress due to rapid urbanisation and high pollution ...

The Forest Department has ruled out the presence of any shrimp farms within the periphery of the reserve forest in Pichavaram and Killai. A senior forest official conceded that there were in fact ...

Tanya Garg | May 27, 2022, 5:48 PM IST If you're looking for a hidden gem away from the hustle-bustle of the city, Pichavaram located in the Cuddalore district of Tamil Nadu is the perfect escape. By ...

The Pichavaram mangrove forest in the coastal Cuddalore district, considered the second largest in the country after West Bengal’s Sundarbans, is a storehouse of biodiversity. Straddling the Vellar ...