Tag: forests
As a child growing up in Dehradun, Rohit Chaudhary’s gaze often lingered upwards, on the villages perched on the shoulders of the Uttarakhand mountains. School treks that took him there…
A kayak moves into one of Pichavaram’s narrow creeks. As we go deeper, the waterway gets smaller. Mangrove roots rise from the mud on both sides, while the branches above…
Akshay Kumar and filmmaker Priyadarshan are set to reunite for their ninth film together, and their upcoming collaboration will explore a subject that is quite different from their earlier comic…
In Sikkim, a length of bamboo can become a flute. A piece of mature wood can become a three-stringed instrument. And, once either is played, the landscape that produced it…
In many parts of India, entering a forest once meant entering the home of a deity. It also meant stepping onto land where a tree could not be cut, an…
Tongass National Forest in Alaska contains the nation’s largest roadless areas, largely protected from commercial exploitation. Eleanor Scriven/Getty Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by…
What’s the best way to conserve a forest? In the opinion of KJ Raju, 75, a retired mathematics professor, referring to the Longwood Shola forest (a 116-hectare reserve forest on…