Andaman Nicobar Environment Team

Although these surveys primarily targeted king cobras, sea turtles and crocodiles, the team also observed and documented a number of rising threats including unregulated hunting, logging and other forms of resource extraction in these islands.

During their travels, they were also introduced to members of the Karen community, an ethnolinguistic minority from erstwhile Burma who were settled in the Webi village of Middle Andaman.

[3] In the late 1980s, Rom and Zai Whitaker and Alok Mallick set up a research base in North Wandoor for herpetological and other ecological studies on islands.

Currently, ANET functions under the supervision of the Board of Trustees of Dakshin Foundation, and is also guided by various advisory bodies on governance, research priorities and ethics.

[3] ANET proposes to address environmental challenges in the islands through independent research[7] and intervention projects,[8] inter-organisational collaborations and the facilitation of engagements by organisations with similar visions and goals.

Hence, in the long run, the aim is to venture beyond the narrowly defined conservation-focused or environmental education-centred interventions to build synergies with institutions involved with other key social goals such as health, nutrition, and poverty alleviation.