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- +==== Gurukula Botanical SanctuaryWestern Ghat mountainsKeralaIndia ==== 
-==== Gurukula Botanical Sanctuary: Location Western Ghat mountains Kerala India====+((http://www.gbsanctuary.org/index.html))
  
 Directors: [[Wolfgang Teuerkauf]]  and  [[Suprabha Seshan]] Directors: [[Wolfgang Teuerkauf]]  and  [[Suprabha Seshan]]
  
-http://www.gbsanctuary.org/index.html+These notes form a part of [[sanjeev_shankar]]'s research, and these are notes from [[site visit and survey notes]]
  
 Imagine driving through a tropical forest area in an Oto-taxi (scooter-type) over a muddy path, suddenly you take a left turn and you continue on an even smaller dirt track. This can't lead anywhere, you think, our driver must be mistaken! And then, just at some point, you stop and seem to have arrived. Small stone steps lead up between the forest vegitation and you go up a track though these plants and trees:  Imagine driving through a tropical forest area in an Oto-taxi (scooter-type) over a muddy path, suddenly you take a left turn and you continue on an even smaller dirt track. This can't lead anywhere, you think, our driver must be mistaken! And then, just at some point, you stop and seem to have arrived. Small stone steps lead up between the forest vegitation and you go up a track though these plants and trees: 
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 ===== The workers ===== ===== The workers =====
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 A trained team of local women work on, [[Ecosystem Gardening]] - propagating, nurturing and reseeding the largest collection of native plants in the region, and working with local villagers and farmers to reintroduce species to degraded places where they were once found. A trained team of local women work on, [[Ecosystem Gardening]] - propagating, nurturing and reseeding the largest collection of native plants in the region, and working with local villagers and farmers to reintroduce species to degraded places where they were once found.
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 ===== The Forest ===== ===== The Forest =====
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 ===== Connections in India: ===== ===== Connections in India: =====
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 The Sanctuary has close connections to this school:  C F L http://cfl.in/about.html The Sanctuary has close connections to this school:  C F L http://cfl.in/about.html
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 ===== European connections: ===== ===== European connections: =====
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