Great Nicobar Coast - Tsunami devastated 1

These are a series of pictures from February 2006 of the earthquake and tsunami devastated coast of Great Nicobar Island.

Coastal forests including mangroves, pandanus and horticultural plantations like those of coconut and areca were badly hit

A dry stand of pandanus

A White bellied sea eagle perches on the dead and dry branches on a mangrove

For images and details of the ecological changes during the earthquake and tsunami of December 2004 see
http://3fotosaday.blogspot.com/2009/07/tsunami-impacted-in-a-islands.html
http://pankaj-atcrossroads.blogspot.com/2009/06/earth-shaking-event.html
http://pankaj-atcrossroads.blogspot.com/2008/01/visit-and-aftermath.html
http://pankaj-atcrossroads.blogspot.com/2007/12/new-vulnerabilities-islands.html