Press Releases from Global Nature Fund (1 total)
India’s second largest lake faces ecological collapse
Global Nature Fund nominates Lake Pulicat as “Threatened Lake of the Year 2010”
Serious environmental impacts destroy the livelihood of 50,000 fishermen as well as hundreds of thousands of people at the Indian Lake Pulicat. The once species-rich fishing grounds and the ecologically important mangrove forests in the lagoon north of the city of Chennai have reached an alarming dimension.
Radolfzell / Chennai February, 2nd 2010: Hundreds of thousands of people…
