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Amphibians can be the hardest forest animals to locate in daylight: many hide beneath leaf litter, while others spend daylight hours buried or in water. After…
Gujarat’s Wild Ass Sanctuary protects one of India’s most distinctive dry landscapes, where salt flats, thorn scrub and grasslands shelter the Asiatic wild ass…
Gujarat's coastline is a working ecological zone where mangroves, casuarina groves, coastal scrub and estuaries sit beside towns, ports and fishing villages,…
The Indian striped hyena (Hyaena hyaena) is an elusive carnivore of Gujarat’s dry and semi-arid country. Its position in the Banni grasslands is best…
Gujarat’s forests form a varied mosaic shaped by arid coastlines, semi-arid plains and wetter eastern hills. Dry deciduous stands, thorn scrub, semi-evergreen…
Teak forests are more than a source of timber; they provide habitat, shape dry deciduous woodland and support ecological connections across Gujarat. The impact…
Gujarat has proposed a butterfly park within Narayan Sarovar Sanctuary, with the aim of pairing a wildlife attraction with learning, local livelihoods and…
Ferns never open flowers; they release spores from structures called sori and turn shaded rocks, tree forks and damp soil into living architecture. Within the…
Gujarat's forest estate spans the dry deciduous country around the Aravalli hills, teak and bamboo forests farther south, the moist forests of Dang, and the…
In Gir’s dry deciduous woodland, a hollow branch can be as valuable as a flowering tree or a seasonal waterhole. Natural cavities in trunks, limbs and dead…