Kandal Gramam

"Kandal Village" in Kunhimangalam is an archetype to the Nation for fostering and nurturing Kandal Forest - a rare kind of plants growing in marshland - and is a flocking land of immigrant birds and beings alike. When the modern age is galloping its advancement by erecting high-rise edifices and esplanades by axing the trees and trampling the meadows, Kandal villagers are supplementing their subtle and sublime love and boon by preserving the boon by preserving the beauty of the landscape, emerging as an emerald in the map of India. With the excellence of hundreds of acre Kandal forest, Kunhimangalam village is, perhaps, the first of its kind in the country. The nature loving villagers from the backwaters of Kunhimangalam united, noticing the destruction of Kandal forest and formed a committee to conserve the forest. Initially the villagers acquired 3 acres of land at the bank of Pullankode River and named the spot as Kandal village. This initiative dwindled the destructive tendency. Now Kandal forest is sprawling at its length and breadth marking it as the first public enterprise of its kind in India. The area is now flourished with about 45 kinds of Kandals, ubiquitously found in the Western part of India. The frostiness of Kandal forest turned out the spot a perch for rare and wide species of immigrant birds and breed of fishes. 

The people are thinking of transforming this place as a research centre for ornithology seeing the wide potentiality of this place. Knowing the biological and environmental inhabitance of the area, a mass exodus can be seen lured at Kandal Village. The organisers are also aiming to make facility for an aquatic journey for the public visiting for biological survey and study of the land. Plans are in the offing to transmute this place as a study centre for the coming generation. A committee named "Kandal Conservation Committee" is set up headed by Mr. Lucose Kadalikode as the Co-ordinator and Mr.Pavithran and Mr.Khaleel Chowa as counseling members. They are also planning for its comprehensive proliferation. Other independent local organisations viz., Kerala Jaiva Karshaka Samithi, Karshaka Mithra, Ore Bhoomi Ore Jeevan, Prakruthi Masika are extending their support to this committee. The recent study revealed that the severity of tempest that ravaged in Orissa is only due to lumbering and destruction of forest on the shore of seaside. That is how the significance of Kandal Village is evaluated as indispensable. 

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