Chilika Lake, a UNESCO World Heritage candidate and designated Ramsar site, is not just a lake but a dynamic ecosystem that attracts hundreds of thousands of migratory birds every winter. It’s a ...

A month-long exhibition invites an Odia artist to display his artworks that offer a surreal take on the ecological crisis of Chilika Lake Utkala kamala bilisadirghika, marela malini nilambu Chilika,’ ...

If it was not for the stern eye of our BNHS birding expert, I might have ended up patting a Godwit or two sitting so temptingly close to our boat. As the boat skimmed through the reed-lined narrow ...

Chilika Lake, India's largest saltwater lake and Asia's biggest brackish lagoon, is a vital ecosystem supporting thousands of fishing families and over a million migratory birds annually. This Ramsar ...

A forgotten palace, with peeling walls and cobwebbed ceilings, once stood at the far end of a quaint village in Odisha. Locals called it Rani Palace. Today, it stands with its original sheen intact, ...

Bhubaneswar: The depth of Chilika lagoon, a wetland and Ramsar Convention site, is decreasing each year, with the forest department extracting 3,26,716 cubic metres of muddy sludge in the past five ...

India is blessed with many natural wonders, but few are as mesmerising as Chilika Lake in Odisha. Spanning nearly 1,100 square kilometres, Chilika is the largest saltwater lake in India and Asia’s ...

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