The Kochi lake, the northwest limb of the Vembanad lake system, was once home to saltwater crocodiles; the hefty reptiles slowly vanished from the lake with the setting up of the port, habitat loss from destruction of mangrove marshes, increase in human settlements along lake’s rim
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