Prosperous Nicobarese worst hit: Govt report
The tsunami waves hit the numerically large and more prosperous Nicobarese, the largest ST population living in the Car Nicobar plains, sparing much of the remaining tribal population in the Andaman
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Who ate my house?
A bird found in the Andaman islands is under grave threat as its edible nest one of the most expensive animal products in the world is falling prey to human greed
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Butterflies brought by tsunami threaten Andaman's ecology
Butterflies in the Andaman archipelago have been facing colonisation. The carrier of the colonists was the 2004 tsunami which brought three foreign species of butterflies to the islands, threatening
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Govt opens 2 Andaman oil blocks to all comers
The government brought the strategically sensitive Andaman and Nicobar Islands on the country's oil map by allowing both domestic and foreign firms to hunt for oil in two deep sea blocks east of Port
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Andaman Trunk Road ignores SC order, affects Jarawas' lives
Five years ago on May 7, 2002
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Tragedy of disappearing tribes
A recent anthropological study on the tribals of Andaman and Nicobar Islands has come up with some startling revelations. The population of the Onges has fallen to about 80 while that of the
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SC bans tree felling in Andamans
The Supreme Court has banned felling of trees in Andaman and Nicobar Island and ordered the administration to remove all encroachments in forest within three
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Black pearl harvesting
The Central Agricultural Research Institute(CARI) in Port Blair is to take up cultivation of the highly expensive and coveted black pearls, in the waters around the Andaman and Nicobar
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CARI develops salt tolerant rice varieties
The Central Agricultural Research Institute (CARI) has developed four salt tolerant rice varieties for Andaman and Nicobar islands and other coastal areas. This rice gives an average yield of 2.5 to
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Forced modernisation driving tribals to extinction
Forced modernisation is driving the tribal communities of the Andaman and Nicobar islands towards extinction and, with them, spelling the death of the vast treasure house of ethnobotanical knowledge,
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Tree felling banned
Incensed by the mindless felling of trees in the Andaman and Nicobar islands for developmental work, the Supreme Court on Wednesday slapped a ban on the island administration from cutting any tree in
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Logging off, for now
The curbs imposed by the Supreme Court on the felling of naturally grown trees and other forestry - related activities in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, come at a critical juncture for moves to
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SC order provides scope for regeneration of Andaman forests
The over-exploited forests of the Andaman and Nicobar islands have now got a breather, with the Supreme Court recently passing an order to close all saw mills in the islands and coming down heavily
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Sharks losing battle in Andaman
In this particular war between ecology and economy, NGOs fear sharks one of the protected species are losing the battle in the waters of Andaman and Nicobar islands. In a bid to make fishing the
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Government allows sand mining
The Union environment and forest ministry has allowed extraction of sand mineral from coastal zones as a special measure in Andaman and Nicobar
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Plastics can choke the Andamans, warn scientists
The Andaman and Nicobar Islands face a potential ecological disaster because of the indiscriminate dumping of plastic and other wastes by ships plying in the Bay of Bengal and the improper handling
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Fishy goings on
Is something wrong with the fish species around the Andaman and Nicobar Islands? So would it seem, going by a recent decision of the environment and fisheries departments of the island to cultivate
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Oil spoil
INDIA is soon likely to ratify the International Convention on Oil Pollution Preparedness, drawn up under the aegis of the International Maritime Organisation of the UN. Once the convention is
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Fishy project
A court order staying the culturing of exotic predatoryfish in the Andaman 6 Nicobar waters sets a unique precedent
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Sorting out differences
a project to study India's genetically diverse population groups has been proposed by the department of biotechnology (dbt). The country has 75 endangered tribal groups among its 465