Soham Kacker is a plant ecologist, horticulturist, and the Curator of Living Collections at the Lunuganga Trust, in Sri Lanka. His interests lie at the intersection of plant science, literature, culture and history, and his current research looks at plant conservation and ethnobotanical landscapes in the Indian Himalayas and beyond. His work has been published in Sanctuary, Resurgence & Ecologist and Current Conservation.
A botanist’s journey through Sri Lanka’s landscape considers its flora, parallel to that of the Western Ghats: all of it part of the same vital biodiversity hotspot