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6 Vande Bharat Train Routes Worth Booking for Scenic Views and Not Just for the Speed

Howrah to New Jalpaiguri, Tea Gardens and the Teesta ValleyThe Vande Bharat on the Howrah-New Jalpaiguri corridor covers roughly 564 kilometres, and for most of the journey north of Malda, the train moves through a Bengal that most passengers never see from the road. Paddy fields give way to jute…

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Nilgiri Elephant Corridors: Why India's Largest Elephant Population Is Losing Its Migration Routes

The World's Largest Asian Elephant Population Lives HereThe Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve, spanning Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, and Kerala, holds an estimated 6,000 to 8,000 Asian elephants, the single largest population of the species anywhere on earth. That number sounds like a conservation success. The reality is more complicated. Asian elephants (Elephas…

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Inside Koraput and Rayagada: The Tribal Villages of Southern Odisha That Time Has Not Erased

The road does not prepare youThe last stretch into Koraput comes through hills that fold into each other like something breathing. There are no billboards. The trees are sal and teak, and the light through them is the particular green that exists only in places where the canopy has not…

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Inside Borra Caves in Araku: What 150 Million Years of Limestone Does to the Body

The moment the light changesThe entrance to Borra is not dramatic. You walk down a concrete path through the Eastern Ghats, past chai stalls and postcard vendors, and then the temperature drops by about five degrees and the sky disappears. That's it. No fanfare. The cave simply swallows you. What…

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5 Sacred Hidden Temples in Andhra Pradesh That Pilgrims Visit and Tourists Consistently Miss

Srisailam's Bhramaramba Mallikarjuna, The One Everyone Knows Is Hiding a Second Temple InsideMost visitors to Srisailam come for the Jyotirlinga and leave. The Bhramaramba Devi shrine, one of the 18 Maha Shakti Peethas, sits within the same complex and receives a fraction of the footfall. Pilgrims who know the temple's…

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Inadequate rain spells trouble for tapioca farmers of Pachamalai

Failure of northeast monsoon and the prevailing hot weather has hit the growth of tapioca crop at Pachamalai, a low range mountains along the Eastern Ghats, in the district

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Pachamalai tourism project in Tiruchi district gets administrative nod

The State government has accorded administrative sanction for the tourism development project at Pachamalai, a low mountain range of the Eastern Ghats, in Tiruchi district

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A first-of-its-kind Eastern Ghats Nature Interpretation Centre in Visakhapatnam

A unique blend of Nature and art welcomes visitors at the first-of-its-kind Nature Interpretation Centre located at the Eastern Ghats Biodiversity Centre in Visakhapatnam

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Tamil Nadu witnesses below par movement of butterflies towards Western Ghats this Northeast monsoon

This year's butterfly migration from the Eastern Ghats and plains towards the Western Ghats was below par due to below normal rainfall in the west zone districts. TNBS, who have been tracking the migration since 2013, observed only a low scale movement of Tigers and Crows. Climatic conditions are assessed…

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Eastern Ghats Biodiversity Centre inaugurated in Visakhapatnam

Principal Chief Conservator of Forests Y. Madhusudhana Reddy inaugurated Eastern Ghats Biodiversity Centre in Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh. Supported by IOCL & Divi's Laboratories, the centre is a miniature of the Eastern Ghats with medicinal plants, astro-themed garden & other forest species. It is hoped to be a tourist destination.

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Geographical Indication tag sought for Andhra Pradesh Red Sanders

Red sanders is a native and endemic to India and can only be found in the Southern parts of the Eastern Ghats. It is a small tree that grows to 5-8 meters in height with a trunk 50-150 cm diameter.

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Chenchu tribals, the green warriors of Nallamala forests of Andhra Pradesh

Eco-tourism, nature trails, jungle safaris and wildlife tourism have not only brought tourists in droves to the Nallamala Reserve Forests, but also the menace of plastic pollution. And the local ‘green warriors’, who call themselves Swatch Sevaks, have taken it upon themselves to make the Nallamala Range, a part of…

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Andhra Pradesh’s first wild orchidarium to come up in Visakhapatnam soon

A beautifully designed orchidarium by the AP Forest Department in Visakhapatnam will house wild orchid species of the Eastern Ghats

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