Deforestation and flora

Tourists wonder where the forest is on the shore. True, it is a forest without a forest. Chaliyam has only a depot where mature teak and other trees are cut from the forests and stored. The Forest Office and EV TEU used to auction the trees from here and send them abroad by ship and vehicle ". Along with this, more than 400 plants mentioned in the book Hortus Malabaricus were planted here, giving us the feeling of a small man-made forest".