Forests, Rivers & Hills
What decades of research tell us about Periyar
A plain-language tour of published research on Periyar: its plants, fish, elephants and tigers, the people at the forest edge and the weeds creeping into its edges.
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Thara Joseph
Thara reads field studies for pleasure and turns them into plain explanations. She writes about wildlife, forests, rivers and what published research says about the southern Western Ghats.
Wildlife
Tigers of Periyar and what the monitoring shows
How camera traps and India's four-yearly tiger estimate work, what they say about Periyar's tigers, and why most visitors never see one and still come home happy.
Wildlife
Nilgiri tahr and the shola grasslands of the high hills
The Nilgiri tahr lives only on the grassy cliffs of the southern Western Ghats. What research says about the animal, its shola-grassland home and how to watch it.