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...

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...

The Tropical Dry Evergreen Forest (TDEF) is  one of the seven groups of tropical forests in India, and it is defined as where ‘hard leaved evergreen trees predominate with some deciduous emergents,...

The Tropical Evergreen forest of the east coast of India has been variously studied since it was recognized as a forest type. Lately quantitative ecological analyses of sacred groves around the Pondic...

The Tropical Dry Evergreen Forest (TDEF) of India is only found on the south eastern seaboard of the peninsular. It has a very limited range, and extends only 60 km inland. The TDEF occurs in an area ...

Each region of the world has a vegetation type that has, over countless eons, evolved as the plant community most suited to the environmental conditions of the area. The Tropical Dry Evergreen Forest ...

A catalogue with ornamental species of the Tropical Dry Evergreen Forest that are used in landscaping. º    º    º    º    º    º  

A catalogue with some species of the Tropical Dry Evergreen Forest that can be planted as hedges. º    º    º    º    º    º    

The restoration of the Tropical Try Evergreen Forest in Auroville now covers some 2000 acres. In 1968 when the township was founded it was a barren land. A variety of restoration methods have been app...