{"id":15939,"date":"2026-07-19T11:51:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-19T06:21:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=15939"},"modified":"2026-07-19T14:20:21","modified_gmt":"2026-07-19T08:50:21","slug":"pallikaranai-marshland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/pallikaranai-marshland\/","title":{"rendered":"Pallikaranai Marshland"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Pallikaranai Marshland Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Decades of urbanisation and indiscriminate dumping have reduced the Pallikaranai marsh to a fraction of its original extent.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About Pallikaranai Marshland<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Location:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> It is a <\/span><b>freshwater marsh and partly saline wetland<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> situated about 20 kilometres south of the city of Chennai, <\/span><b>Tamil Nadu.<\/b><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It serves as an aquatic buffer of the flood-prone <\/span><b>Chennai and Chengalpattu districts.<\/b><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It encompasses 65 wetlands, through two outlets, viz., Okkiyam Madavu and the Kovalam Creek, and falls into the Bay of Bengal.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On its eastern periphery, the <\/span><b>Marsh is flanked by the Buckingham Canal.<\/b><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is one of the <\/span><b><a href=\"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/ramsar-sites-in-india\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ramsar sites in India<\/a>.<\/b><\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\"><b>Fauna<\/b>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The diverse ecosystem of the marshland supports some 115 bird species, ten mammals, 21 reptiles, ten amphibians, 46 fish, nine molluscs, five crustaceans, and seven butterfly species.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">These include notable species such as Russell\u2019s viper (Daboia siamensis) and birds such as the glossy ibis (Plegadis falcinellus), grey-headed lapwings (Vanellus cinereus), and Pheasant-tailed jacana (Hydrophasianus chirurgus).<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Threats:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> It continues to face significant anthropogenic pressures, including encroachments and sewage discharge.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/tamil-nadu\/quicksand-in-pallikaranai-marshland-in-chennai\/article71239210.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">TH<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pallikaranai Marshland is a freshwater marsh and partly saline wetland situated about 20 kilometres south of the city of Chennai, Tamil Nadu. Read more about Pallikaranai Marshland, Location, Fauna, Threats, News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":65260,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2912,21,22,23],"class_list":["post-15939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","tag-pallikaranai-marshland","tag-prelims-pointers","tag-upsc-current-affairs","tag-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","no-featured-image-padding"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15939"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15939\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":114034,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15939\/revisions\/114034"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}