Some of the first efforts were in 1987, when the species Kappaphycus alvarezii, native to the Philippines, was acquired by the Central Salt and Marine Chemicals Research Institute (CSMCRI), a ...

Fifteen tonnes of Kappaphycus alvarezii seedling was distributed to rural women at an event organised at CSIR- CSMCRI-Marine Algal Research Station, Mandapam, recently. Red seaweed Kappaphycus ...

It is a foreign species, called Kappaphycus alvarezii. “But, even a few years ago, rafts and rafts of this pasi (seaweed) would cover most of the seawater around here," says Mutha, who lives in ...

have come under increasing threat from exotic seaweed Kappaphycus alvarezii. The latest joint field inspection carried out by members of the Research Advisory Committee of Gulf of Mannar Biosphere ...

By the time dawn breaks over the Gulf of Mannar, the women of Ramananthapuram district in Tamil Nadu would have already ...

The invasive Kappaphycus alvarezii seaweed, which smothers and kills coral reefs, has spread its wings to coral reef areas in Valai island in the Gulf of Mannar (GoM) and set to invade new coral ...

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