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Mangrove forest - Buckingham canal
May 24 , 2025
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- For years, the Buckingham Canal along East Coast Road suffered from neglect and the spread of invasive species, most notably by Prosopis Juliflora.
- Now, the Tamil Nadu Forest Department has launched an initiative to restore a stretch of the canal.
- It will establish green belt of native mangrove species along its edge.
- The new mangrove forest has come up near Buckingham Canal in Kazhipattur in Chennai.
- Under the Green TN Mission, Tamilnadu Forest Department had planted 12,500 mangrove seedlings from different species last year.
- The six salt-tolerant species are Rhizophora mucronata, Bruguiera cylindrica, Avicennia marina, Aegiceras corniculatum, Excoecaria agallocha, Acanthus illicifolius.
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