Red Magazine Vizag in English life style magazine Published this article page no 15 The Andaman and Nicobar archipelago consists of 836 islands islets and rocky outcrops extending over 800 km. They are truly oceanic islands never having been connected to the mainland during Pleistocene glaciations. The chain of islands run north to south between 6o 45o and 13o 30o N latitudes and 90o 20 and 93o 56o E longitudes with an extent of 8249 km2 . The total geographical area is under forest land i.e. 6742.782 km (81.74 per cent) as per the State Forest Report of 2019. The least disturbed and the finest preserved mangroves in India are found in the region. The coral reefs of Andaman and Nicobar is the second richest found in the world. More than 10% of the plants are endemic and estimated about 871 species from terrestrial ecosystem. Among the invertebrates butterfly has more than 70% of endemism in sub-species level red magazine vizag subscription.
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