How Nicobar’s corals disappeared on government maps https://scroll.in/article/1087919/how-nicobars-corals-disappeared-on-government-maps Between 2020 and 2021, corals vanished from the maps of Great Nicobar island’s coastline while vital green zones were dramatically reduced in size..
Apart from Galathea Bay, the 2020 map prepared by the National Centre for Sustainable Coastal Management in Chennai, which functions under the Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change, also showed coral reefs hugging several other shores of the Great Nicobar, particularly in the south and the west.
But an updated map prepared by the same institute in 2021 contains a dramatic change. In this map, corals are completely missing along the coast of the Great Nicobar, including in Galathea Bay. Instead, they are marked in the middle of the sea, away from the shores.