PITCHANDIKULAM

Pitchandikulam Forest is an environmental organization based in Auroville, India. PF has more than 51 years of experience in restoration ecology on the Coromandel Coast. The ethno-medicinal forest at Pitchandikulam and the Adyar Eco-Park provides a useful demonstration of what PF is capable of transforming and sustaining. The main mission of the organization is to restore, protect and preserve the local remnant coastal Forest also known as East Deccan Dry Evergreen Forest [EDDEF],and to restore the watersheds in Tamil Nadu... Pitchandikulam Forest runs largely on solar power: for electricity, pumping water, and increasingly, transport. At our Environmental Education Centre in Nadukuppam, we have developed an integrated water sanitation system, a solar energy hub and various organic agricultural activities... Pitchandikulam has been working with local communities in Auroville and the bioregion to identify suitable sites for plantation and reforestation of the endangered species of the..

Also known as: Pitchandikulam Forest

Primary location: Auroville India