Column | Why gaurs are tumbling down the Nilgiris
10 months ago

Column | Why gaurs are tumbling down the Nilgiris

The Hindu  

It was a foggy mid-morning in September of last year. The shola-grassland mosaic Among the world’s mountain systems, the Nilgiris, historically, have the lowest rate of natural erosion and denudation. One of the main reasons for this is the montane ecology of dense tropical cloud forests and grasslands that cover the triangular-shaped plateau — called the shola-grassland mosaic. One of Lyon’s images — of the Coonoor region in the Nilgiris — along with other archival photographs of the plateau, is part of the ongoing exhibition titled Remembering and Reimagining, curated by filmmaker Jenny Pinto, in Bengaluru. Collaborative efforts The relentless and ever-increasing catastrophic destruction, like the 10-metre deep cuts, is wreaking havoc on the structural integrity of one of the most stable mountains in the world.

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