Andaman and Nicobar Environmental Team [SEP] inception
Andaman and Nicobar Environmental Team
The Andaman and Nicobar Environmental Team (ANET) base station is an environmental non-governmental organisation set up in 1989 on 5 acres (2.0 ha) of land in Wandoor, on the southern tip of South Andaman Island to conduct research programs towards understanding of the diversity, distribution, and ecology of the islands' fauna and flora. It is a division of the Madras Crocodile Bank Trust, Chennai, and is the only research base of its kind in the islands. It is
located at about 26 km from Port Blair by road and 3 km from the entrance to the Mahatma Gandhi Marine National Park. The base lies 14 km south of the Andaman Trunk Road.
History.
In the late 1980s, Romulus Whitaker, Satish Bhaskar and Alok Mallick set up a research base in North Wandoor, South Andaman for herpetological and other ecological studies on islands. In 1990, the Andaman and Nicobar Islands Environmental Team (ANET) was constituted and with grants from Conservation International and the Royal