Stories
How Community-Led Water Harvesting Supports Wildlife in the Thar Desert Fringe is a story about shared survival in a dry, highly variable landscape. Along the…
The Indian desert jird is a small, nocturnal rodent of sandy and semi-arid landscapes. In Gujarat, its distribution is associated with the margins of the…
Gujarat’s Strategy for Controlling Forest Fires in the Dangs District combines prevention, rapid detection, local participation and careful forest management.…
The Saputara Hill Range rises in Gujarat’s Dang district along the northern edge of the Western Ghats, where monsoon clouds, shaded valleys and lateritic soils…
Gujarat is better known for Asiatic lions, the Little Rann of Kutch and extensive dry landscapes than for resident wild elephants. Along the eastern border,…
Gujarat’s Gulf of Kutch is a place where desert margins, tidal flats, coral reefs, mudflats and industrial coastlines meet. Its mangroves form a living…
In Gujarat’s northern dry deciduous forests, the Indian pangolin is a quiet specialist of heat, hard ground and seasonal abundance. Known scientifically as…
Groundwater is easy to overlook in a dry landscape because it remains below the soil surface, yet it supports forests, grasslands, wetlands, livestock and…
Vultures are among Gujarat’s most important natural recyclers. By consuming dead livestock and wildlife, they remove organic waste, limit the spread of…
Gujarat’s forests span dry deciduous woodland, thorn scrub, grassland, mangrove, wetland and semi-arid landscapes. These habitats support species such as the…