Following the tsunami of 2004, Auroville’s relief and rehabilitation efforts extended to establishing a green-line of diverse and resilient trees along the coast.  In 2005 Shakti Nurs...

      Forests, the clouds of earth, hold up to the sky their silence, and clouds from above come down in resonant showers. “Fireflies” by Rabindranath Tagore   The...

The Auroville Herbarium is developing up a so-called special herbarium, with it's main focus on plant species that represent the Tropical Dry Evergreen Forest (TDEF). It also incorporate ...

Sadhana Forest was founded in 2004 to reintroduce TDEF forest and transform 70 acres of severely eroded land. Till date more than 18,200 indigenous trees have been planted with labor of love of young ...

Pitchandikulam is dedicated to the preservation and restoration of the Tropical Dry Evergreen Forest. Itwas established in 1973 as one of the pioneering Auroville green belt communities engaged in the...

Building check dams in the canyons is a highly efficient way of erosion control and rain water catchment. It also allows nature to restore itself, trees and hedges are growing in the canyons and anima...

The Auroville plateau in Villupuram district of Tamil Nadu, India was a wasteland when the community was started in 1968. Considerable effort was expended in reforesting the plateau, and over 1500 ...

Auroville as a physical being, is only about 5 kilometers in diameter. It is located in an environment of land and water and people and history. When it was started in l968, it was hardly a welcoming ...

The natural regeneration of vegetation is a dynamic process by which life recolonises land when the vegetation has been partially or totally destroyed. Life recovers the lost ground through the mec...

In the effort restoring the indigenous forest of the coastal are in Tamil Nadu temple reserve forest and temple groves have shown to be a decisive.Temple groves represent relict fragments of ori...