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Lourdes and Jo from Pitchandikulam Forest are introducing the Nadukupam Environmental Education Centre at the Auroville Green Practices Seminar 2010. They are working with a rural Government High Sc...
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...
Sustainable Forestry is a holistic, intergenerational approach to managing the world’s largest natural vegetation type. In a sustainbale approch to forestry the use of the natural forest and local w...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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