Ankita Jayaram Hema

LA4003-1

Semi-evergreen moist and dry deciduous forest, Central western ghat, Wayanad wildlife sanctuary. This forest is a complex system of vegetation, gradual slopes, valleys and wetlands. It is a host to diverse range of flora and fauna and dense jungles. The study focuses on tracking an elephant's trail through the forest and deciphering its movement pattern in order to find different forest vegetations and their needs. Its motions, pauses, and stops are scrutinized in great detail, and it becomes the forest's critical system. The journey takes you to a point of rest along the elephant trail in the wetlands. The pause makes one think and compare the conditions of an ideal and modified ecosystem of these foraging grounds of elephants.