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Across Gujarat’s dry grasslands, scrub, salt margins, and semi-arid plains, the Indian spiny-tailed lizard occupies a specialised ecological niche. Known…
Across Gujarat, the Baya Weaver is a familiar thread in the living fabric of farms, village ponds and roadside vegetation. Its carefully woven nest, often…
Gujarat’s forests support rural livelihoods, wildlife habitat, soil protection and water security across a state shaped by dry plains, coastal landscapes and…
The Indian rock python is one of Gujarat’s most adaptable reptiles. This large, non-venomous constrictor uses wetlands, river margins, irrigation reservoirs,…
Gujarat is exploring how community-managed landscapes can support medicinal plants while improving rural livelihoods and strengthening ecological restoration.…
Central Gujarat is a landscape of river valleys, dry deciduous woodland, farms, wetlands and rapidly expanding towns. Roads are essential to this economic…
The Asiatic wild ass, locally known as the khur, is one of Gujarat’s most recognisable wild animals. Its stronghold is the Little Rann of Kutch and the…
South Gujarat receives some of Gujarat’s heaviest rainfall, particularly across the forested hills and tribal districts near the Western Ghats. In places such…
Gujarat’s protected areas sit within a landscape where wildlife habitat, farming, roads, towns and industry frequently meet. That proximity creates a…
North Gujarat is a landscape of open horizons, thorn scrub, cultivated fields, seasonal streams and dry grasslands. It may appear sparse beside India’s wetter…