Kovalam Wet Lands, is 40kms from Chennai City. I put this album together from the pics I took during my visit. Feel free to use them in your nature projects at school.

1. Kovalam Estuary is located 40 kms from Chennai City. It receives its fresh
water from the Buckingham canal.
CHENNAI WET LANDS

2. Pallikaranai, Kovalam, Kelambakkam, Pulicat Lake and Annamalaicheri are
some of the wet lands of Chennai city.
CHENNAI WET LANDS

3. Chennai used to have about 150 small and big water bodies in and around it,
but today, the number has been reduced to 27.
CHENNAI WET LANDS

4. Kovalam Estuary always has water retention and thus has its own aquatic eco-
system.
CHENNAI WET LANDS

5. The marshes acts as forage and breeding ground for the birds.
CHENNAI WET LANDS

6. Rains make the wetlands beautiful. The South East monsoon (July-Sept) and
North West Monsoon (Nov-Dec) brings the migratory birds and thrills the
Nature-lovers, with their activities.
CHENNAI WET LANDS

7. Wetland plants (Hydrophytes) are very well adapted to changing water
conditions, high salt and low oxygen environment.
CHENNAI WET LANDS

8. Kovalam These wetlands serves as an ideal habitat for about 63 species of
birds whose number rises with the monsoon seasons.
CHENNAI WET LANDS

9. You could spend hours at a wetland watching birds. Wetlands support bird life
ranging from painted storks, purple moorhens to herons.
CHENNAI WET LANDS

10. Sustainable monitoring of the
lake increased the fish
population and migratory birds
started returning in large
numbers.

11. KOVALAM WET LAND
……It is located on both sides of the link road connecting Old Mahabalipuram Road in
Kelambakkam and East Coast Road in Kovalam.

12. There are colonies of birds,
mostly pelicans, storks and
egrets and even ducks, teals
and avocets.

13. It comprises vast sheets of water, as far as the eye can see.

15. Chennai city’s south, especially, is dotted with popular forest patches like the
Vandalur zoo and the Pallikaranai marshland as well as the lesser known
Nanmangalam Reserve Forest and wetlands in Perumbakkam and Kovalam.

16. Wetlands are areas inundated or
saturated by groundwater at a
frequency and duration sufficient
to support the prevalence of
vegetation typically adapted to
the saturated soil condition.

17. Wetlands are home to diverse and fragile living organisms. They help to check
floods, prevent coastal erosion and mitigate the effect of cyclones and tidal waves.

18. KOVALAM WET LANDS
Wetlands are a habitat for several flora and fauna, and act as a natural
drain and a major groundwater recharging unit for the city.