Eating into the Wild
Wild foods are increasingly popular, as can be witnessed in the spate of festivals and events around them. A permaculture farmer pauses to consider how we forage and consume, today.
The Green Queen of Spices: Cardamom’s Future in the Western Ghats
‘I wouldn’t say the sky islands of the southern Western Ghats are shrinking or being destroyed. Rather, they are being transformed and changed,’
Laboratory of Evolution
‘I wouldn’t say the sky islands of the southern Western Ghats are shrinking or being destroyed. Rather, they are being transformed and changed,’
Re-growing a Forest: The Remarkable Life of Suprabha Seshan and Her Rewilder Friends
One of the Western Ghats’ best-known restoration ecologists and conservationists speaks to us from the Gurukula Botanical Sanctuary
The Many Songs of the Sholakili
Endemic to the Shola forests of the Western Ghats, this bird has astonished scientists with its impressive repertoire of songs, possibly the most complex in the avian world
The Ghost of Good Work in Wayanad: How the Gadgil Commission Tried to Save the Western Ghats
The tragic rejection of science-based policy in the Western Ghats betrays the legacy of some of our greatest conservationists. As we watch tragedy unfold in landslide-ravaged Wayanad, what lessons can we learn for the Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve? An environmental sociologist and son of the soil speaks.
Stories of the Sholas
In south India, the mountain plateaus of the Western Ghats form an almost continuous wall from north to south.