The highly threatened Nicobar islands of India – home to 1,800 animal species and some of the world’s most endangered tribes, has now been designated as a world biosphere reserve.

Protected status stripped. In 2021, large swathes of land and coastal area, including portions of the Great Nicobar Biosphere Reserve and Galathea Bay, were stripped of their protected status to ...

The Great Nicober Island is the southernmost island in the Andaman and Nicobar archipelago in the Bay of Bengal. It is home to species of flora and fauna not found anywhere else on the earth.

According to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, the Great Nicobar Island houses more than 650 species of plants, as well as 1,800 species of mammals, birds, reptiles ...

The project will result in the loss of about 900,000 trees from 15 percent or 130 square kilometres of the prime evergreen tropical forest. This forest is home to 650 species of terrestrial flora and ...

The minister said that while 73.07 sq. km of land is required for the project, 76.98 sq. km will be re-notified as a tribal reserve, resulting in a net increase of 3.912 sq. km in the tribal ...

The Sixty-eighth session of the United Nations General Assembly decided in 2013 to proclaim 3 March, the day of the adoption of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild ...

The Andaman & Nicobar administration has been entrusted with protection of interests of tribals who will be impacted by the development of Great Nicobar Island. Thursday, Jul 17, 2025 New ...

The island chain, home to 1,800 animal species and some of the world’s most endangered tribes, was among 12 new sites added to the global network of biosphere reserves in Paris on Thursday.