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Media outlets and tourists might have well confused the Neelakurinji with another shrub of the same genus

Tribal communities harvest ‘bamboo rice’ in Mudumalai Updated: Updated: Share Article AAA After many decades: A paniya tribal woman cleaning the ‘bamboo rice’ at Erivail tribal village near the Mudumalai Tiger Reserve.   The gregarious flowering of Dendrocalamus strictus, a tall bamboo species found in the Sigur plateau, is being harvested by tribal groups after many decades. The bamboo, which is said to flower any time between the ages of 25-60, before dying, has bloomed throughout the Mudumalai Tiger Reserve and neighboring Bandipur. Tribal communities, who are allowed to colle...

A conservationist’s song for saving the grasslands Updated: Updated: Ecologist Vasanth Bosco has launched a song to drive home the message of conservation Share Article AAA Vasanth posing along with the endemic and rare golden kurinji that flowers once in nine years   | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement Ecologist Vasanth Bosco has launched a song to drive home the message of conservation   It has been over nine years since restoration ecologist Vasanth Bosco set out to restore the rolling grasslands and the clumps of stunted evergreen trees with dense canopies — the sholas — in th...

Expert group to assess threats to plant species in the Nilgiris Updated: Updated: Share Article Members of the Western Ghats Plant Specialist Group in Udhagamandalam.   | Photo Credit: Sathyamoorthy M Threats to endemic flora in the Western Ghats will be assessed by experts comprising the Western Ghats Plant Specialist Group (WGPSG). Members of the WGPSG of the Species Survival Commission of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) met here recently, to chart a future course of study of endemic plant species in the Nigiris and across the Western Ghats. “The study of ...