wild elephants — Padayappa, Arikomban, Chakkakomban — Conflict reshaping Munnar
Wild Elephants of Munnar: Padayappa, Arikomban & the Crisis Reshaping the forests in Western Ghats The human mind demands a binary script. To make sense of the wild spaces we visit, we neatly divide their inhabitants into a grand theatrical cast: the “iconic heroes” whose majestic figures anchor our tourist postcards, and the “notorious villains” […]
The Seven Wonders of the Western Ghats
To see the Western Ghats only from the window of a moving vehicle is to look at a masterpiece with your eyes closed. Older than the majestic Himalayas, this ancient mountain chain is a globally recognized UNESCO World Heritage site and an absolute biological superpower, harboring ecosystems found nowhere else on Earth. It is a […]