In India the Andaman and Nicobar Islands are a global biodiversity hotspot, with the Andaman group belonging to the Indo-Burma hotspot and the Nicobar group part of the Sundaland hotspot.
Despite making up only 0.25% of India’s land area, they host over 10% of the country’s faunal species, including more than 1,000 endemic species found nowhere else on Earth.
It have tropical rainforests which Cover approximately 86% of the land area, featuring giant evergreen and moist deciduous forests.
Mangrove Forests are highly productive nurseries for marine life cover about 12% of the islands’ area.
It have huge marine biodiversity which is surrounding waters are a “rainforest in the sea,” teeming with over 1,200 fish species and rare sea turtles like the leatherback.
While significant portions are protected as Tribal Reserves, National Parks, or Wildlife Sanctuaries, the hotspot faces modern pressures.
But government declare large-scale infrastructure project, such as the proposed Great Nicobar mega-project, risks the loss of millions of trees and critical habitats.
Rang-Rivaz 
That’s so sad 😢 What is the Great Nicobar mega project? Development for housing?
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Port, housing, tourism etc. Government favouring specially a businessman call ‘Adani’.
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That’s terrible. Florida in the US was once a beautiful thriving ecosystem. Now it’s been drained, paved and developed and the Everglades are infested with aggressive non-native invasive plants and animals. All because of greed and political corruption. 🫤
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Ohh thank you so much for comment 🙏🥰😎
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This is devastating! Like what they do with Amazon rain forests. They start putting some parts on fire so to clear some areas for cattle raising and for the sake of “progress”.
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🥹🥲 that’s not good, thank you so much for comment 🙏🥰
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Sad
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🥹👍 thank you so much Nusrat for comment 🙏🥰😎
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India biodiversity is great 😃
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Yeah 👍 and we have to conserve them 😎
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Absolutely 💯
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This should not be called development. The trees and forests are the island’s natural protection. Reading this made me feel both sad and angry.
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Sure 💯💯💯 thank you so much for comment 🙏🥰😎
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