Ten of India's 18 biosphere reserves are part of the World Network of Biosphere Reserves under UNESCO's Man and the Biosphere (MAB) Programme. The latest was added in 2016. Which one was that?

AAgasthyamala Biosphere Reserve ✓ Correct

BSeshachalam Hills

CAchanakmar-Amarkantak Biosphere Reserve

DGreat Nicobar

Correct answer: (A) Agasthyamala Biosphere Reserve

Explanation

The Agasthyamala Biosphere Reserve was the Indian site added to the World Network in 2016.

The Seshachalam Hills are a biosphere reserve but were not the 2016 international addition.

Achanakmar-Amarkantak joined the world network in an earlier year.

Great Nicobar has long been part of the network, not a 2016 entry.

Agasthyamala spans the Western Ghats across Kerala and Tamil Nadu with high endemism.

India now has several biosphere reserves inscribed under UNESCO's world network.

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