The Andaman Islands are changing. The question is in which direction? The Andaman Islands is a tropical island paradise between India and Thailand. The islands are changing and might come to the tipping point of over-exploitation – by a growing population and well as growing tourism industry. We like to create possibilities for a positive change on the islands. Bridging the gap between local citizens, companies as well as visting tourists.
We are doing workshops around this. Creating visions about a future Andaman Islands. The keywords are: Sustainability, Responsibility and Co-operation.
This initiative were started by Idea Society, Fantastic Studio and ANET (Andaman Nicobar Environmental Team). The visioneers have so far, been indians living on Andamans, or people with a strong connection to the Andamans. Idea Society, a swedish collective acted as facilitators aiding the visioneers in the first workshop session that will be one of the starting points for upcoming work. Fantastic Studio (Andamans) have now partnered up with ANET to continue to hold workshops on the islands during 2011 and 2012.
Questions? Contact [email protected] or [email protected]
This underwater mountain range manifests itself above water as a chain of emerald islands of exceptional beauty and conservational importance. The islands’ immense biological diversity is a result of ocean boundaries enclosing a wide range of ecosystems – open oceans, shallow seas and reefs, sandy beaches, rocky shores and sea caves, mangroves and wetlands, littoral forests, giant lowland evergreens and hill top forests on this 6000sq km land.
Description by ANET India.