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Chellanam residents to protest against lack of coastal protection measures
The Hindu
The Chellanam Kochi Janakiya Vedhi, an organisation demanding coastal protection, has said that it will organise a protest on Monday before the office of the Fisheries Deputy Director in Ernakulam to
The Chellanam Kochi Janakiya Vedhi, an organisation demanding coastal protection, has said that it will organise a protest on Monday before the office of the Fisheries Deputy Director in Ernakulam to protest against what the organisation alleged was the authorities’ failure to carry out coastal protection measures in a time-bound manner. The authorities were pretending to be “asleep to the appeal for help from Chellanam residents”, said a notice issued by the Janakiya Vedhi announcing the protest action. It said the members of the group would sleep in front of the fisheries office to symbolise the lack of action on the part of the authorities. The Janakiya Vedhi has also opposed a move by the State government to rehabilitate and relocate people living within 50 metres of the high tide line by setting up a housing complex. The organisation said people were looking towards the government introducing coastal protection measures and not relocation measures.![](/newspic/picid-1269750-20250217064624.jpg)
When fed into Latin, pusilla comes out denoting “very small”. The Baillon’s crake can be missed in the field, when it is at a distance, as the magnification of the human eye is woefully short of what it takes to pick up this tiny creature. The other factor is the Baillon’s crake’s predisposition to present less of itself: it moves about furtively and slides into the reeds at the slightest suspicion of being noticed. But if you are keen on observing the Baillon’s crake or the ruddy breasted crake in the field, in Chennai, this would be the best time to put in efforts towards that end. These birds live amidst reeds, the bulrushes, which are likely to lose their density now as they would shrivel and go brown, leaving wide gaps, thereby reducing the cover for these tiddly birds to stay inscrutable.