India Guides - Wild Life

Wildlife Overview | Bishnoi Community | Lakshadweep | Threat to Rhinos in Assam | A Trip to Bandhavgarh |
 Wildlife & Bird Sanctuatries - Major Wild life Sanctuaries and National Parks | Wandoor National Park | Bandhavgarh | Bandipur | Corbett | Desert National Park | Dudhwa | Gir | Kanha | Kaziranga | Mudumalai | Nagarhole | Panna | Periyar | Ranthambore | Sunderbans | Sariska | Bird Sanctuaries | Bharatpur

Wildlife & Bird Sanctuatries - Coral Islands of Lakshadweep
 

Lakshadweep, the coral islands are most definitely a paradise on earth – incomparable in beauty and solitude.

Some 300 kilometres off the coast of Kerala, Lakshadweep (literally a thousand islands) is a group of 12 atolls and 36 islands. Most of these islands are long and irregular with a lagoon enclosed by a coral reef. These lagoons abound in spectacular coral growth which in turn sports a diverse array of marine life.   

Numerous scuttling, creeping, burrowing worms, molluscs and crustaceans, brilliant, darting fish, colourful anemones and the five armed star fish and the interlinked, carnivorous, tentacled polyps covering the skeleton that forms the coral – all this in water not more than two or three meters deep!