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Experts Concerned Over Centre's Tourism, Development Plans for A&N Islands science.thewire.in - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from science.thewire.in Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
India's turtle researchers oppose development plans for Little Andaman, Great Nicobar islands downtoearth.org.in - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from downtoearth.org.in Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Sea turtles under threat as Indian government weighs development in Andaman Islands by Rosamma Thomas on 14 April 2021 Little Andaman Island is part of a rainforested archipelago far off India’s eastern coast in the Bay of Bengal.
An Indian government think tank has proposed developing the island along with another in the archipelago. If implemented, experts say the plan would pose a threat to nesting sites of leatherback sea turtles, whose population globally is declining. The leatherback is the largest of all living turtles, and India and Sri Lanka are the only places in South Asia with large nesting populations. ....
news Is India planning to spy on Chinese submarines from the Andamans, with a little help from Japan? An aerial view of some of the 524 islands that make up the Andaman and Nicobar archipelago in the Bay of Bengal. Photo: AFP India s move, with a little help from Japan, to develop a strategically located island chain near the mouth of Southeast Asia s main shipping lane is part of a broader plan by New Delhi to keep a closer watch on China s naval assets, say analysts and former Indian officials - especially its submarines. The Andaman and Nicobar archipelago of 524 islands, only 38 of which are inhabited, stretches across some 1,000km (620 miles) of Indian Ocean by the western entrance to the Malacca Strait, through which an estimated 80 per cent or more of China s seaborne trade passes. ....
Indian government’s development plans for the Andamans may endanger the world’s largest sea turtles The government wants to open Little Andaman and ‘release the area for deployment of strategic assets’. A leatherback sea turtle at a nesting site in the Little Andaman. | Adith Swaminathan/ Mongabay India A 58-page, undated “vision document” for the “sustainable development” of the Little Andaman Island in the Bay of Bengal was produced by the NITI Aayog, a think tank of the central government. The document, not in the public domain but reviewed by Mongabay-India, states that “ecological and environmental constraints” have meant that the strategic and economic potential of the island, about 675 sq km in area, were never developed to their full potential; 95% of the island is under forest cover. ....