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Barda Wildlife Sanctuary sits in the rugged Saurashtra peninsula of Gujarat, a mosaic of dry deciduous forests, rocky outcrops, and rolling grasslands that…
A shy, sandy-coloured bird the size of a small wallaby roams the thorn scrub of western India every winter. The Houbara Bustard has long puzzled ornithologists…
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…