Southern Western ghats : biodiversity conservation plan

The Indian National Trust for Art and Cultural Heritage is a wholly autonomous body, set up for the conservation of our natural and cultural heritage. The Society aims, with the active participation of its members, to create an awareness among the public for preservation of this heritage, by acting as a pressure group when any part of it is threatened by damage or destruction arising either out of private acts or public policy.

INTACH will undertake pilot conservation projects; promote the preservation of traditional arts and crafts; organise and facilitate workshops; study courses, conferences and lectures and undertake the publication of a journal, books, pamphlets, newsletters, and so on, in any area relating to conservation.

Dr. Sathis Chandran Nair, an ecologist of eminence, has conducted extensive field. studies in the tropical forests of the southern Western Ghats. At present the Director of INTACH's Southern Regional Office at Thiruvananthapuram, he was earlier commissioned by the Ministry of Environment and Forests to study the status of the tropical forests of the southern Western Ghats and also the land capability of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands.