Mangrove deforestation continues unabated in Kannur
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Bid to make way for Kaipad and shrimp farming
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A file photo of mangroves that were cleared on a private land at Ezhome in Kannur district.
Bid to make way for Kaipad and shrimp farming
Deforestation of mangroves is continuing unabated in Kannur district.
Kannur is blessed with large tracts of mangrove forests spread over government and private lands. However, large-scale felling of mangroves was recently noticed in private lands at Pattuvam, Ezhome, Cherukkunu, and Kandakali in Payyanur. The land is now being used for Kaipad and shrimp farming.
two years two months later with all of the tree growth unless you have some sort of markers where you bury something off the path. it was at an intersection of two trails where he did it. i could understand how he could find it, but, yeah, we have he heavy winters a lot of snow, we have flooding most springs, and so he told us he found it. and obviously he didn t leave part of it behind. he did. he actually did. but it w over a year and hurricane irene came through, too, before we knew that something was here. so we did come back in the summer of 2012 trying to find anything that would corroborate his story and we weren t able to. so the fact that he buried something that is his story and there s no way to confirm that. that s correct. he knew enough to tell you