Khushboo Prashant

LA4003

Evergreen, Dry evergreen, Souther deccan plateau, Albzia Amara - Chloroxylon - Anogeissus Latifolia Series,  Turahalli Forest.

Once there existed a large forest that connected Western to Eastern ghats through the Deccan plateau. Due to anthropogenic factors, forests have been fragmented from its larger system. The project investigates and identifies parts, which still continues to exist as remnants of that old forest and its connections. Although degraded, fragmented and disseminate, some systems like the ‘southern thorn scrub forest’ have managed to survive and act as stepping stones connecting the most prevalent dry mix deciduous forests. One would take a pause at the tropical thorn scrub forest to experience vastness of terrain, occurrence of basaltic boulders and resilient nature of forest that co exists with harsh urban conditions. Such pause points gives one clue of a continuous system which once existed as ‘One forest’.