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28/09/22 06:34 AM IST

Thamirabarani River

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  • The district administration of Tirunelveli in Tamil Nadu along with Bengaluru-based non-profit Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment (ATREE) are using what they term as a ‘hyper local’ approach to restore one of south Asia’s oldest rivers, the Thamirabarani.
About the river 
  • The restoration project is called TamiraSES.
  • It is the only perennial river in Tamil Nadu.
  • It originates and ends in TN: It originates in the Pothigai Hills of the Western Ghats in the Tirunelveli district. The river flows through Tirunelveli and then neighbouring Thoothukudi and ends in the Gulf of Mannar at Punakayil.
  • The river supports Nilgiri marten, slender loris, lion-tailed macaque, white spotted bush frog, galaxy frog, Sri Lankan Atlas moth and the great hornbill.
  • The river is also mentioned in Sangam literature. 
About Project 
  • The TamiraSES project aims to restore the Social Ecological Systems of Tamiraparani river riverscape from head-waters to the estuary to enable conditions for native biodiversity to thrive and maintain and enhance multiple ecosystem services to local stakeholders.
  • Five social ecological observatories will set up as part of first phase of the project. These will serve as pilots to scale up from the learnings from these sites.
Source- DTE 

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