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South Garo hills, Meghalaya. May 2007

Akole, Ahmednagar district, Maharashtra. October 2008

Karmazhiri village on the border of the Pench Tiger Reserve, Madhya Pradesh. November 2007

Sacred groves

The South Asian subcontinent landscape is marked by innumerable sites of ecological importance that are also sacred to the local communities. These offer great opportunities and challenges and a number of researchers and organisations including Kalpavriksh have been working on these.
Here are pics from three different parts of India...

the sacred grove of the Bhimashanker Wildlife Sanctuary in Maharashtra

Gond worship site, Pench Tiger Reserve, Madhya Pradesh

Banagudi Shola, worship site of the Kurumba Tribal community, Nilgiris, Tamil Nadu