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About Gulf of Mannar National Park
It is situated on the south eastern tip of India, including 21 islands which are about 8km off the bank of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu.
The range now known as a Gulf of Mannar Marine National Park was before called as Pamban to Tuticorin barrier reef.
The zone was informed as a national park in the year 1986 and later it accomplished the status of a biosphere save in the year 1989.
The recreation center is honored with a famous marine life which streams in accordance with the shores of Tuthukudi (Tuticorin) and Ramanathapuram locale close to the panchayat town i.e. Mandapam which is removed at 150 km from Madurai zone.
The Park is about 160 to 200 km wide and is arranged between the West shoreline of Sri Lanka and India. The Park additionally frames a third’s piece biggest of the world’s maritime divisions i.e. the Indian Ocean.
The Gulf of Mannar is separated from Palk Strait by a progression of the firmly connected gathering of islands with Coral inception and reefs prevalently alluded to as the Adam’s Bridge or the Rama’s Bridge.
The Adam’s scaffold lies towards the north side in the middle of India and Sri Lanka. On both sides of the Park, the Tambaraparani River from the Indian coast and the Aruvi Aru from the Sri Lankan coast unite with the Indian Ocean.
The Gulf of Mannar is accounted for to have recorded 117 types of hard coral. The turtles, pearl oysters, sea cucumbers, balano-glosses, dolphins, sea stallions, barracuda, herrings and sprats are protected by the reefs. These islands are additionally gone by the transitory winged creatures.
Species like sea cucumbers, whales, dugongs, dolphins, and coral reefs have turned into a rundown’s piece of endangered species in view of ruinous angling and contamination.