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Media for Report Card for Chilika Lake
Illustration of noise. Sound from human activities can have an adverse impact on the environment if not managed properly.
Noise
White fish lay in brown murky water nearby an abandoned shrimp net. In Chilika Lake, active shrimp pens and abandoned nets trap sediment and kill juvenile fish.
Abandoned shrimp nets
White fish lay in green murky water. At landings in Chilika Lake, dead fish thrown back into the water contaminate the Lake.
Dead fish
White fish in murky green water nearby illegal shrimp pen. In Chilika Lake, active shrimp pens and abandoned nets trap sediment and kill juvenile fish.
Illegal shrimp pens
Illustration of excess sediment running off the land into the water.
Inputs: sediments 2
A downward pointing yellow arrow labeled
Inputs: sewage
Vessel strike of irrawaddy dolphin as it surfaces to breathe.
Vessel strike of marine mammal
Illustration of cultural Odisha graphics associated with the east coast of India.
Cultural Odisha graphics
Illustration of a fish trap used in Chilika Lake, a brackish water lagoon spread over the Puri, Khurda and Ganjam districts of Odisha state on the east coast of India.
Fish trap 2
Illustration of local water transport in India, commonly used on Chilika Lake which is a brackish water lagoon spread over the Puri, Khurda and Ganjam districts of Odisha state on the east coast of India.
Local water transport (India)
Illustration of a local fishing boat used on Chilika Lake, a brackish water lagoon located in the Odisha state on the east coast of India.
Net fishers (India)
Illustration of an adult lesser flamingo standing
Phoenicopterus minor (Lesser Flamingo) : standing
Illustration of an adult lesser flamingo walking
Phoenicopterus minor (Lesser Flamingo) : walking
A raised view of several colorful buildings with architecture similar to those found in the area surrounding Chilika Lake.
Small village (India)
Illustration of tour boat used on Chilika Lake, a brackish water lagoon spread over the Puri, Khurda and Ganjam districts of Odisha state on the east coast of India.
Tour boat (India)
Salt evaporation ponds on the shoreline of Chilika Lake, Orissa, India.
Saltworks
Illustration of dugong (Dugong dugon)
Dugong dugon (Dugong) 2
Illustration of a finless porpoise (Neophocaena phocaenoides)
Neophocaena phocaenoides (Finless Porpoise)

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