Activities

Coastal Restoration (Phase 1)


Restoration of disaster hit coastal zones in SN Puram Grama Panchayath, Kodungallur. We have been working for the last two decades on ecosystem functioning. We developed niche profile-based ecosystem composition and modelled for prediction of bioclimatic suitability recently with the UN declaration of decade of ecosystems for policy inputs and effective ecorestoration practice in the region. The pilot ecorestoration process was implemented with the participation of local community in the region incorporating MNREGA scheme. This has been announced as a model program by Mr. Saji Cherian, former Honorable Minister of Fisheries, Government of Kerala appreciating the effort of involving local Panchayath and women incorporating MNREGA. The local community demanded planting niche profiled tree composition in the coastal belt as a vegetation belt along the coast near to the sea wall as a barrier against coastal erosion .