{"id":66591,"date":"2025-10-05T15:43:31","date_gmt":"2025-10-05T10:13:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=66591"},"modified":"2025-10-06T15:42:22","modified_gmt":"2025-10-06T10:12:22","slug":"pulicat-lake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/pulicat-lake\/","title":{"rendered":"Pulicat Lake"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Pulicat Lake Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Recently, Pulicat lake fishermen demand a long-term solution as silt threatens lake livelihoods.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About Pulicat Lake<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is a vast coastal shallow, brackish water lagoon along the <\/span><b>coast of Bay of Bengal<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> into which streams drain<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is the second largest <\/span><b>brackish water lagoon<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in India after Chilika, sprawling across <\/span><b>Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ThIS lagoon is separated from the <\/span><b>Bay of Bengal by the Sriharikota island.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is fed by the <\/span><b>Aarani River<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> at the southern tip and the <\/span><b>Kalangi River<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> from the northwest. The <\/span><b>Buckingham Canal,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> a navigation channel, <\/span><b>passes through the lagoon.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It was designated as a <\/span><b>Ramsar site in 2002.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Biodiversity:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> It is a unique ecotone that supports rich biodiversity \u2014 from aquatic life such as mudskippers, seagrass beds, and oyster reefs to more than 200 avian species,<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Flora:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> The green kingdom is represented with about 132 plant species like Walsura piscida; Manilkara elengi, Excoecaria agallocaha, Spinifex littoreus, Calamus viminalis, etc.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Fauna:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> It includes migratory birds such as Eurasian curlews, oystercatchers, bar-tailed godwits, sand plovers, and greater flamingos.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/cities\/chennai\/pulicat-fishermen-demand-long-term-solution-as-silt-threatens-lake-livelihoods\/article70125676.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">TH<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pulicat Lake is a vast coastal shallow, brackish water lagoon along the coast of Bay of Bengal into which streams drain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":66911,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[21,3078,22,23],"class_list":{"0":"post-66591","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"tag-prelims-pointers","9":"tag-pulicat-lake","10":"tag-upsc-current-affairs","11":"tag-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","12":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66591","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\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66591\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}