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NHAI, Forest Department efforts provide Pichavaram another 25 hectares of mangroves
AI EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
The National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) and the Forest Department have planted mangroves to add 25 hectares to the Pichavaram mangrove ecosystem, compensating for mangroves lost during road‑widening work in Marakkanam.
WHY IT MATTERS
It shows a concrete effort to restore mangrove habitat after infrastructure development, helping to preserve coastal ecosystems.
Sources in the NHAI say the plantation was done for 15 square metres of mangroves that were destroyed in Marakkanam during road widening works
This story was originally reported by The Hindu — National. As an automated real-time news aggregator, NewsToolBar provides multi-perspective indexing and AI summarization while directing full readership directly to primary publisher sources.
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