India’s natural areas are gaining increasing appreciation for their beauty and also their inherent value of being ‘natural capital’. Most protection efforts are however focused only on designated wildlife sanctuaries and tiger reserves, while lesser-known natural areas face a high degree of pressure for development. We bring these ‘Unexplored Areas’ into focus, so that their intrinsic value and need for protection are highlighted.
In 2019, a torrential monsoon had drenched Karnataka and left every dam full and many rivers in spate. Water rushed down the slopes of the Western Ghats and restored well-known […]
Hubli, at 670 metres above sea level, encompasses a wide range of habitats including scrublands, grasslands and marshlands. Agriculture is predominantly practised in the region, and the crops grown surrounding […]
Dandeli, situated alongside the Western Ghats, is a small town in the Uttara Kannada district, Karnataka. Given its proximity to the Western Ghats, Dandeli has always fostered industries that depended […]
Kasavanahalli Lake used to be my little secret. Off the traffic-clogged Haralur and Sarjapur roads in suburban Bengaluru, this wetland, tucked in the heart of a residential neighbourhood, was my […]
Another fitting sobriquet for India’s ‘garden city’ could be ‘land of forts’, as it is perhaps bettered only by the likes of Rajasthan and Maharashtra. As one drives out of […]
In the late 1990s, as a student in Manipal, I discovered that the hills I gazed at from my hostel window were a two-hour bus ride away. A school chum […]
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