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| Travelogue: By Country | By Date | India | April 2001 | |||||
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The backwaters cover only about a third fo the area they did in the mid-1800s. Legal and illegal land reclamation projects reduced the area by about 20% between 1968 to 2000. Pollution and fishing using dynamite, poison, and very fine nets have extirpated mangroves, crocodiles, and migratory fish. |
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