The sluice gates open at high tide, letting estuary water rush into the Khazan Lands

The bund walls have been weakened for an extended time by the saline estuary water resulting into it breaking and saline water seeping into the farm lands.

The saline water turned the fertile ground unusable, causing numerous farmlands adjacent to the sluice gates to begin disintegrating.

The area around the sluice gate rapidly deteriorated into an unusable swamp with wild grass growing on it, and soft soil that was wet and saline.

A creek started to widen going to the farmlands wrapping it around.

since the creek contained saline water many farmlands become infertile.

Mangroves, a type of amphibian vegetation, started to Surround the edges of the water body. They lie between the water body and deteriorating farmlands.

The farmlands slowly started to decrease in number and the area was occupied by the barren swampy land. The creek started to widen more as it lost the soil around percolating the water into it.

Khodpentli Manas

The region near the Old Goa jetty has the Khodpentli Manas (local name for the sluice gate) which manages the high and low tides of the Mandovi river. This area is known as Khazan lands in general which has high number mangroves and increasing cluster of houses as we move towards the Divar center. Fishing and cultivation is practiced by the localities over here. The change in landscape over the years has resulted in shifts in economy and swapping the migration patterns of biological beings.
This drawing depicts the transformation of the Gotlim khazans' terrain, using the current road (formerly a laterite bund wall) as our spine, from an agro-based area to a swampy one, as well as the growth of diverse vegetation due to the changing landscape.
This study furthermore looks at changes in changes in terrain and its effects on agrarian practices, shifts in economy, fishing and its networks and variations in migration of birds.

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