Tagged: conservation

The Tea Garden Grows Inside a Forest That Fights to Stay a Forest

The Amchong Tea Estate has made tea for sixty years inside Amchang Wildlife Sanctuary, one of Guwahati's most pressured protected forests, where a court-ordered eviction and an army's rewilding have been needed to hold the peace with its elephants.

The Elephant's Road Runs Through the Garden

Assam's tea estates were planted across the old migration routes of the region's elephants, and the gardens are now among the deadliest places in the state for both species to meet. Here is the toll, and what some estates are doing to reopen the road.

The Wild Tea Still Standing in Assam's Forests

Camellia assamica grows wild today in forest tracts along the Assam-Arunachal-Nagaland border, no garden, no planting record. Here is where it stands, who keeps finding it, and why even a genuine wild tree cannot fully settle the question of what "wild" means here.