Adivasi farmers threaten existence of Wenlock Downs, one of the last remaining grasslands in the Nilgiris
Adivasi farmers threaten existence of Wenlock Downs, one of the last remaining grasslands in the Nilgiris Updated: Updated: Share Article AAA In the past 10 years many swamps and grasslands have been encroached in Wenlock Downs reserve forest in Niligiris forest division. | Photo Credit: Sathyamoorthy M Over a hundred hectares of the last remaining grasslands in the upper Nilgiris, in Wenlock Downs, is being slowly eroded by encroachments by the Shola-grasslands’ former adivasi protectors — the Todas and Kotas. According to Forest Department officials, over a 100 hectares of the tot...
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