The National Commission for Scheduled Tribes (NCST) has declined to entertain a Right to Information (RTI) application ...

The Great Nicobar plan, for instance, disregards the rights of indigenous Shompen people and threatens a Unesco biosphere reserve. These projects assume that ‘progress’ must mean concrete, steel and ...

The ancient forests of Great Nicobar—a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve and the ancestral home of the Nicobarese and Shompen, a particularly vulnerable tribal group (PVTG)—have sustained these historically ...

Great Nicobar Biosphere Reserve was included in the list of Man and Biosphere (MAB) Program of UNESCO in 2013. According to UNESCO, the MAB programme is an intergovernmental scientific programme that ...

The Great Nicobar Biosphere Reserve encompasses Campbell Bay National Park and Galathea National Park, forming one of the most pristine ecosystems in India.

The Nicobar Islands are home to unique flora and fauna, with over 80 per cent of the Great Nicobar Islands covered in pristine rainforests. Many native species are endangered and found nowhere else on ...

Photo: X Great Nicobar was designated a UNESCO biosphere reserve in 2013, and Campbell Bay is a nesting ground for the endangered giant leatherback turtle.

The UNESCO declared a significant portion of the island as a biosphere reserve. Despite such uniqueness, distinctive parameters, and ecological significance; its NPV per hectare is exactly equal ...