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Travelogue: By Country | By Date India | April 2001  

 

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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