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Plea to conserve wetlands

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Eco groups submit memorandum to Achuthanandan

KOZHIKODE: Environment groups have appealed to Chief Minister V.S. Achuthanandan to prevent transfer of 80 acres of the Kottuli wetlands in the heart of the city to the Kerala Tourism Development Corporation KTDC), as they fear it will end up in the hands of "the real estate lobby".

Representatives of the Coordination Committee for Protection of Kozhikode Wetlands, Kerala Sasthra Sahithya Parishad and the Society for Protection of Environment Kerala (SPEK) made this appeal to the Chief Minister in a joint memorandum when he was in Kozhikode on Tuesday. They said in their memorandum that the Kottuli wetlands survived "the greed of the real estate lobby" only because of the organised resistance put up by the local people. However, there were reports that 80 acres of the wetlands which was now with the KWA for its proposed sewage project was about to be handed over to the KTDC.

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