A platform for and
from the Western Ghats
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.
‘I wouldn’t say the sky islands of the southern Western Ghats are shrinking or being destroyed. Rather, they are being transformed and changed,’
‘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.
In south India, the mountain plateaus of the Western Ghats form an almost continuous wall from north to south.
In 2010, as our semester drew to an end, my college gang was eager to vacation off the grid, and we got the perfect recommendation.
To enter the 7-acre expanse of Little Flower Farms is to experience life in the lush forests of the Western Ghats
How to tune into the quiet of the ‘blue mountains’, despite the crowds and over-development of Ooty—a frequent visitor ‘ambles with Anne’, a local tour guide.