Over 95% of the 911-square-kilometre Great Nicobar island is made up of national parks, protected forests and tribal reserve areas, said official documents. The Great Nicobar Biosphere Reserve ...

A map of the Great Nicobar Island. Credit: Landbot, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

The islands, comprising only 0.25% of country’s geographical area, has 11,009 species, according to a publication by the Zoological Survey of India ...