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Dr. Sankara Rao of the Indian Institute of Science is advocating for more scientific approaches to afforestation in India. He warns that current carbon-centric, single-species planting schemes threaten tropical biodiversity and ignore the complexity of native ecosystems.
Dr Sankara Rao is clearly obsessed with the arboreal world. His narrow desk at the Centre for Ecological Sciences (CES), Indian Institute of Science (IISc), is covered with botanical texts, including Pradip Krishen’s Jungle Trees of Central India a nd Trees of Delhi, Endemic Vascular Plants of India published by the Botanical Survey of India and his own two-volume field guide, Trees of Bangalore.
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