The vision behind Auroville’s afforestation efforts is to recreate the indigenous forest known as the 'Tropical Dry Evergreen Forest'.  A forest in which a large percentage of its species have medi...

Tropical dry evergreen forests  (TDEF) are found in tropical regions with seasonal rainfall, resulting in several months of severe drought. Such conditions have provided the selective pressures...

Botanical Services   Botanical Services is the commercial unit of the Auroville Botanical Gardens  dedicated to bringing ecologically sustainable solutions to the commercia...

Comprising about 100 acres, which partly include poramboke or public land, Aranya was a waste land for decades. An exception was a small sacred grove dedicated to the deities Muneeswaran and Veerappan...

The Shakti Nursery started in 1983 on hardly more than 30 acres of sand and dust, cut through by three gullys. That was the time of terrible dust storms in summer and heavy erosion during the monsoon ...

Auroville's Botanical Gardens started in 2000, it is meat as a Tropical Dry Evergreen Forest reserve that stretches over 50 acres. More than 260 species of trees have been planted already. The whole g...

There is and there has been much experimentation in developing environmentally friendly building techniques, recycling wastewater, using solar power but afforestation and farming seems to be critical ...

The Shakti Nursery in Auroville is  engaged in the conservation and propagation of the Tropical Dry Evergeen Forest (TDEF). The nursery is part of a wider project that  aims re-creating the indige...

European Union supports Auroville’s afforestation project. The planting of 75,000 trees within Auroville, fortifying Auroville’s forest gene and bunding and check dam work needed to combat soil er...

Following the tsunami of 2004, Auroville's Shakti Nursery has done important environmental work along the coast, and learnt some invaluable lessons in the process. The work continues with success a...