In India, Sacred Groves Are Helping Resurrect a Near-Extinct Forest Ecosystem

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Practical Solutions for the Ocean’s AilmentsWhen Sathyamurthy N. Photo by Dinodia Photos/Alamy Stock PhotoThis forest type is within 30 to 50 kilometers of the Coromandel Coast and can withstand the long, humid, and hot (sometimes up to 40 ºC) summers and the deluge of up to two meters of rain during the monsoons. Photo courtesy of Mahima JainKeezhputhupattu, for instance, receives hundreds of thousands of devotees every year, and villagers find it hard to control outsiders’ interactions with the forest

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