Gulf of Mannar Biosphere Reserve – India India has already declared a part of this region as the UNESCO Gulf of Mannar Biosphere Reserve covering an area of 10,500 km2 of ocean with 21 islands and the ...

The $12,000 award is given once every two years in memory of Dr Michel Batisse for outstanding achievement in management of biosphere reserves across the globe.

Gulf of Mannar Marine National Park, forming the core area of an even more extensive Gulf of Mannar Marine Biosphere Reserve, sprawls over an area of 560 square kilometers and the first area to be ...

It will also focus on the Gulf of Mannar Biosphere Reserve. There are two units of five marine watchers, each being set up in the State.

A clarion call was made to conserve the Gulf of Mannar Bio-sphere Reserve by A.P. Lipton, former Principal Scientist of Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute (CMFRI) at a seminar on ...

The state forest department in Chennai has launched a Marine Elite Force to protect the Gulf of Mannar Biosphere Reserve and Palk Bay areas. The force will patrol the area to prevent poaching and ...

The Gaja cyclone which wreaked havoc on the delta districts had spared the Gulf of Mannar (GoM) biosphere reserve untouched, though the forest department officials kept their fingers crossed after ...

CHENNAI: Despite sea surface temperature (SST) hovering above the bleaching threshold limit of 30°C, the coral reefs in the Gulf of Mannar have shown remarkable resilience this summer, with no ...

That’s what was happening on September 23, 2022, when the Operational Land Imager-2 (OLI) on Landsat 9 captured this image of whorls of N. scintillans discoloring waters in northern Sri Lanka and ...

The force will combat marine wildlife crimes, including smuggling, prevention, and poaching of marine animals, particularly in the Gulf of Mannar Biosphere and Palk Bay.

The notification by the Union government issued on February 11 includes 9990.96 sq. km in the Cauvery Basin, which falls within the Gulf of Mannar Biosphere Reserve and is near the Palk Bay and ...