Description: Kodiakkarai also called Point Calimere or Cape Calimere is a low headland of the coromandel coast. The forests of Kodiakkarai also known as Vedaranyam forests are one of the last remnants of the dry evergreen forests. The Point Calimere Wildlife Sanctuary with an area of 24.17sq.kms was created on 13 June 1967. The sanctuary includes dry evergreen forests, mangrove forests and wetlands. In 1988, it was renamed as Calimere Wildlife and Bird Sanctuary and it holds large wintering populations of greater Flamingos. Since this sanctuary has large wintering population of Flamingo birds, this permanent pictorial cancellation of Flamingo bird has been utilised in Kodiakkarai S.O.