In India’s Western Ghats, sacred groves are better at growing future forests

Mongabay
Jul 15, 2026, 12:07 pm70 ptsTrending
In the villages of India’s Western Ghats, some of the oldest and tallest trees do not grow inside a national park. They grow in sacred groves, small patches of old, mostly untouched forest that local communities have protected for generations, because they believe the trees belong to their deities and…

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