page_title: Landaa Giraavaru
section_title: Marine biodiversity
hierarchical_section_title: Landaa Giraavaru / Flora and fauna / Marine biodiversity
caption_attribution_description: Français&#160;: Une tortue imbriquée et un poisson-clown des Maldives dans son anémone magnifique, à l'atoll de Baa (Maldives).
context_page_description: Landaa Giraavaru, often called Four Seasons at Landaagiraavaru, is an island in the Baa Atoll in the Maldives. Home to a luxury Four Seasons resort since 2004 with rates from USD $1,400 per night, it is one of the many island resorts of the Maldives.
context_section_description: The island is located inside the "Baa Atoll UNESCO Biosphere Reserve", designated by the UNESCO in 2011. Its shallow waters, particularly rich in coral, fish and an important population of whale sharks and manta rays have gained the atoll a reputation for exceptional diving. The ecosystem is characterized by a very high cover rate coral, very diverse and dominated by several species of tabular, branching or digitate corals of the genus Acropora. In addition to a high number of pelagics, the surrounding waters shelter many large marine animals such as sea turtles, dolphins, moray eels, tuna and groupers. This atoll is also famous for important populations of spectacular big animals such as whale sharks and manta rays.
caption: A typical underwater landscape of Baa atoll close to Landaa Giraavaru, with a hawksbill turtle and a Maldivian clownfish in its anemone.
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