Stories
Gujarat’s forests contain a diverse range of medicinal plants used in traditional healthcare, local livelihoods and emerging herbal markets. From dry deciduous…
The Indian wolf, a grey wolf subspecies known to scientists as Canis lupus pallipes, survives in some of the harshest landscapes of the Indian subcontinent. In…
Walk into a high school in Brisbane or Melbourne and you will often find students debating the future of the Great Barrier Reef, swapping stories about…
The rustle of leaves high in the canopy of central Gujarat hides one of the subcontinent's most striking arboreal mammals. The Indian giant squirrel, Ratufa…
Nal Sarovar spreads across more than 120 square kilometres of seasonal wetland, grassland, and open water on the outskirts of Ahmedabad in Gujarat. Recognised…
The salt flats of the Little Rann of Kutch, the freshwater marshes near Nalsarovar and the mangrove-lined creeks of the Gulf of Kutch together form one of…
Gujarat’s forests range from the dry deciduous landscapes of Gir and Dangs to thorn scrub, grasslands, mangroves and coastal wetlands. This variety supports…
Across Gujarat’s tribal belt, small forest patches can carry ecological importance far beyond their size. Protected through customary belief and community…
Gujarat sits on the western edge of India, but its eastern districts share the kind of woodland fringe where elephants and people inevitably rub shoulders. As…
Stretching across the arid and semi-arid belts of Gujarat, the native grasslands of Banni, Kachchh, and the Saurashtra plains have long supported pastoralists,…