<span style="color: #222222;">The eighth annual pulicat day wil be observed on February 2 at Pulicat to create awareness among people about the importance of protecting the lagoon.</span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">The day is celebrated as the world wtlands day, with activities like catamaran race, rangoli competition,quiz and drawing competition for children, heritage walk and folklore programs.</span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">The founder of Art and architecture research development and education Xavier Benedict told that the wetland was one of the northeast monsoon cloud attracting regions in the country. It was a centre of cotton route once.</span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">The economic boom and unplanned industrial expansion have led to exploitation of water basin to the lagoon.</span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">Located in the Buckingham canal that stretched from Kakinada in Andhra Pradesh and Marakkanam in Tamilnadu, pulicat lake was once once a prominent port of south east coast for cotton export which attracted the Arabs in 700AD, Europeans in 1502 and Japanese in 1619 in AD.</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;"> </span>