Drowned Forests

1. Periyar Lake, India
Periyar lake is artificial reservoirs, a flood area created in 1895 by Mullaperiyar Dam construction. Tree stump is the remains of the old forest, but the contours of the hills around the lake, the wooded hills, providing a permanent water source for local wildlife, and is said to be one of the few places where dams have been made both for the ecosystem.


2. Bezid Lake, Romania
Situated in the Transylvanian region of Romania, Lake Bezid almost do not need to add a reason to carry connotations of "haunted". Tall tree stump that once emerged from the water surface like wrinkled hand, presents a scene alternately bleak and beautiful. Adding an atmosphere of mystery, the reservoir is to hide a village deep in the water.


3. Udawalawe Reservoir, Sri Lanka.
Udawalawe, as everywhere in nature, where there is death there is life as well. Reservoir can display the weather-bleached skeleton of thousands of forest trees, killed by the dammed waters, and indeed wild animals displaced by the construction, but despite this, the elephant now drawn into the reservoir, various kinds of water birds visit, and important fish species are also found.

4. Volta Lake, Ghana
Lots of dead trees came from the Volta Lake, which has the largest surface area of each reservoir in the earth. Lakes formed by hydroelectric Akosomba Dam, which provides power to many countries. Completed in 1965, he forced the relocation of 78,000 people a new settlement, along with 200,000 of their animals, while about 120 residential buildings and countless small ruined.

5. Caddo Lake, USA
Cypress trees grow in moist habitats, and some can live for more than 1,000 years. Baldcypresses, which evolved in marshy habitats, has a distinctive growth called cypress knees, growing on the water that is part of the root system and provide structural support and stabilization in flood-prone sites like this.