The Lakshadweep forest department on Tuesday arrested a person accused of heading an international smuggling operation in sea cucumbers, a protected species under | Mumbai news ...

The Lakshadweep Islands administration has announced the creation of the world’s first conservation area — 239 sq. km — for endangered sea cucumbers. The announcement Saturday, Jun 28, 2025 ...

Hardly three months have gone by since a special protection force assigned by the administration of Union Territory of Lakshadweep seized 1,716 sea cucumbers from an uninhabited island named ...

Recently, NBFGR scientists had discovered new shrimp species - Periclimenella agattii (2019) named after the Agatti island and Arabianensis (2020) named after the Arabian Sea.

Scientists at the ICAR-National Bureau of Fish Genetic Resources (NBFGR) working on sea anemones of the Lakshadweep group of islands have found mass anemone bleaching off the Agatti island.