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.
Green panel allows Great Nicobar plan to advance
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Environment Appraisal Committee which flagged concerns over project has now ‘recommended’ it ‘for grant of terms of reference’ for EIA studies
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A Leatherback turtle on the Galathea Bay nesting beach, Great Nicobar Island. File
Environment Appraisal Committee which flagged concerns over project has now ‘recommended’ it ‘for grant of terms of reference’ for EIA studies
The Environment Appraisal Committee (EAC) - Infrastructure I of the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEFCC) has flagged serious concerns about NITI Aayog’s ambitious project for Great Nicobar Island (‘NITI Aayog vision for Great Nicobar ignores tribal, ecological concerns’,
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Sahir Advani is a Junior Adjunct Fellow at Dakshin Foundation, a not for profit fisheries organization. Sahir received funding from The University of British Columbia, International Development Research Centre, Robin Rigby Trust for Collaborative Coastal Research to conduct part of this research.
Hannah Bassett receives funding from the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program, the Foreign Language and Areas Studies Fellowship, and the South Bay Cable/Fisheries Liaison Committee.
Jacqueline Lau works for WorldFish an international, not for profit research organization and part of the CGIAR that seeks to deliver research for a more food secure world, particularly for societies most vulnerable women and men. This research was supported by the CGIAR Research Program on Fish Agri-Food Systems and the ARC Centre for Excellence in Coral Reef Studies.
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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.