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XIN-NIL-003 · The nilgiris deck

What if the shola forests and grasslands could be regrown, patch by patch?

Problem

How might ordinary residents and visitors help restore the Nilgiris' original shola-grassland mosaic?

Target
  • · Schools & colleges
  • · Forest department
  • · Nature groups
User needs
  • · Simple ways to help
  • · Visible progress
  • · Native species knowledge
Hint

Adopt-a-patch programmes? School-run native nurseries? A public map that turns green as patches recover?

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The shola is a slow prayer. Learn to sit through it. Adopt a patch, come back for it, tell the forest your name.

Preethi · Xin Coonoor

GPS-tagged native saplings. School students update the progress map on Sundays. Recovery you can watch.

Karthik · Xin Coonoor

Adopt a metre. Bring your grandchildren every monsoon. The forest remembers who came back.

Anitha · Xin Coonoor

Adopt-a-patch as a school-holiday tradition: one patch, one class, one decade of photographs.

Ronald · Xin Coonoor