90% of Chennai's Pallikaranai marsh lost to ‘development’ in 30 years

That the Pallikaranai marshland is encroached, or is there to be gobbled up and then destroyed, is common knowledge. But in a shocking revelation, an amicus curiae appointed by the Madras high court has found that the wetland which was spread over 50sqkm just 30 years ago, had shrunk to 5.99sqkm in 2007 and further to 3.17sqkm at present

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