As India moves forward with plans to transform the Great Nicobar Island (GNI) in the Indian Sea into a sprawling development project, concerns remain over what that might mean for the island's ...

CAR NICOBAR, INDIA - Last year's Indian Ocean tsunami killed nine members of the wandering Shompen tribe in India's remote Nicobar islands, an official said Thursday in the first confirmation of ...

The Shompen live in the rainforests of Great Nicobar. If their forest and rivers are destroyed, they will be too, says a press release from Survival International. The group, which works, “in ...

Tribal leaders slam the authorities for pressuring them to sign “surrender certificates” and lose their ancestral lands hit by the 2004 tsunami. At the heart of the dispute is the Great Ni ...

Satellite imagery captures the southern tip of Great Nicobar Island, including Galathea Bay, in India. Credit - Gallo Images—Orbital Horizon/Copernicus Sentinel/Getty Images On a moonless night in ...

The Tribal Council of Great Nicobar alleges pressure from the Andaman and Nicobar administration to surrender their ancestral villages for a major development project.

On a moonless night in January, a gargantuan turtle was digging a nest high up on a soft sand beach at Galathea Bay on the Great Nicobar Island in the Indian Ocean. Her flippers, each more than two ...