VIJAYAWADA: Chief Minister Nara Chandrababu Naidu emphasised the urgent need to protect Kolleru Lake, a vital ecological zone in the State, while addressing the concerns of residents with compassion.

The Supreme Court on January 16 directed the state government to submit a detailed status report by March 19 on the current state of encroachments in the Kolleru Lake and Kolleru Wildlife Sanctuary ...

Kolleru Lake is one of the 75 Ramsar Sites in India. A Ramsar Site is a wetland site of international importance under the Ramsar Convention, an intergovernmental environmental treaty established in ...

The Kolleru Lake a repository of avifauna was almost lost once earlier when the Grey Pelican which was the seen as the ecological mascot of the lake went in search of “greener pastures”. Now this ...

Vijayawada: Though there are no water reserves at present in the Kolleru Lake, the Krishna and Godavari deltas may face a severe inundation threat like the recent Chennai floods in the future thanks ...

Environmental hotspot, Kolleru Lake, is constantly under the threat of encroachment for the production of food. Poor farmers living in villages around the lake are trying to encroach upon it to eke ...

The environment ministry has set up a seven-member panel to study a proposal to reduce the size of wetland areas around the Kolleru lake sanctuary, one of the largest water bodies for migratory birds ...

ELURU: Depleting water levels in Kolleru lake spread over West Godavari and Krishna districts has been creating panic among the agrarian and fishermen communities. The drought-like situation is also ...

Machilipatnam(AP), Jul 17: The government will constitute a committee to study the problems being faced by the fishermen and locals in the villages around Kolleru lake, Union Environment Minister ...

The lake is a source of abundant food in the form of fish and it also provides suitable climatic conditions for breeding. (Image/IE) One million winged visitors expected this season to Kolleru lake in ...

This article originally appeared on Undark. Until the 1980s, Kolleru Lake was a sprawling shallow body of water. At its deepest point during the monsoon season, the water only reached 10 feet, yet the ...