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The Shola Trust Gudalur – Tamil Nadu

Posted on 05/02/2013 by website administrator

NGO Profile – Sanctuary Asiamagazine February 2011: In Gudalar, at the edge of the Mudumalai Tiger Reserve, a small committed group of volunteers work to protect India’s shola forests – a mosaic of montane evergreen forests and grasslands found only at high altitude … Continue reading →

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Cycling for Elephants! Initiative by The Shola Trust in Gudalur – Tamil Nadu

Posted on 31/01/2013 by website administrator

We are working with the Make a Difference (MaD) initiative to organise a cycling fund-raiser for our work around ‘elephants in the matrix’. The ‘conflict vs coexistence’ (and larger sharing vs sparing) debate is of course vibrant, but most our work is in … Continue reading →

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Training Kota, Irula, Toda and Kurumba women of the Nilgiris: Earth Trust preserves ancestral knowledge for health care, education and income generation – Tamil Nadu

Posted on 22/08/2013 by website administrator

Esther Elias, The Hindu, Sunday Magazine, October 20, 2012 Read the full article and view more photos here >>  Vanya Orr walks the villages and forests of the Nilgiris to create self-sufficient communities, says Esther Elias. Shola forests arch over … Continue reading →

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Indian indigenous knowledge: Biodiversity, ecology, health, nutrition, nature, tourism & wildlife – Custom search engine

Posted on 25/05/2019 by website administrator

ACCORD  (Action for Community Organisation, Rehabilitation and Development) – www.adivasi.net Archive.org – https://archive.org Asia Society – http://asiasociety.org The Shola Trust (nature conservation in the Nilgiri region) – www.thesholatrust.org Down To Earth (India) – www.downtoearth.org.in Eco Walk the Talk (Singapore) – www.ecowalkthetalk.com Equitable Tourism Options (EQUATIONS) – www.equitabletourism.org … Continue reading →

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Tip | Understanding India’s legislation known as Forest Rights Act and its relevance for tribal communities

Posted on 17/03/2018 by website administrator

Rajshree Chandra, The Indian Express, March 17, 2018 | Read the full article >> The FRA was enacted in 2006 with the aim of protecting the claims of tribal communities over tracts of land or forests they have inhabited and cultivated … Continue reading →

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