In 2021, activists associated with River March, an organisation that works towards rejuvenating the city’s rivers, wrote a letter to the chief minister and environment minister as well as local public representatives requesting them to give the lake legal protection.

Charkop and other wetlands play an important role in influencing bird dispersal in the region as well as in protecting the mainland from floods.

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While court battles and signature campaigns are on, it is important we understand why this has occurred in the first place. Allowing or turning a blind eye to one encroachment, means there is a rapid and uncontrollable multiplication. Many times, it is the powerful who are behind the encroachments. The very leaders or those who wield influence are responsible for this wanton destruction, or are in connivance with those who do so.

There is the severe blowback to these actions which we experience during the monsoon. Nature has a way of hitting back in the most devastating ways and if we continue to think that it will not affect us.

Protect or you are in peril, is the message.