A platform for and
from the Western Ghats
Attending a Biodiversity Management Committee meeting in the foothills of the Nilgiris, a young Pazhaiyar woman explains what environmental awareness means for indigenous people
What can the gorgeous Oriental Dwarf Kingfisher tell us about endangered freshwater habitats in the Western Ghats?
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
A Pazhaiyar adivasi takes stock of climate change in the Palani Hills, traveling to Valparai and back in this moving personal meditation
Becoming intimate with other species in the Western Ghats involves music, mimicry and the fine art of listening, says one of its guardians
As change comes, so does opportunity, argues one long-term farmer in the Palani Hills.
‘I wouldn’t say the sky islands of the southern Western Ghats are shrinking or being destroyed. Rather, they are being transformed and changed,’
One of the Western Ghats’ best-known restoration ecologists and conservationists speaks to us from the Gurukula Botanical Sanctuary
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 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.