India’s Lost Desert Forests: Can life thrive in the desert? The Miyawaki Method

SUGi Talks 🌿 EP02: India’s Lost Desert Forests: Can life thrive in the desert?

Rajasthan, the Desert State of India, has always been considered barren land. Because of this misconception, it has become one of the most ignored places for ecological restoration. However ancient literature and fossils have shown that there were once forests where the Thar Desert now resides. Today our Forest Maker Gaurav Gurjar is on a mission to restore these lost desert forests, but can life thrive in the desert?

On this episode of ⁠SUGi Talks,⁠ we speak to Gaurav, who is a jungle tree expert at @afforestt and the Director of the Maruvan Foundation in Rajasthan. Over the past few years, Gaurav has been restoring an area of India’s lost desert forest and, with the support of SUGi, he’s begun the second 4,000 sqm phase of the project. Living on the land, enduring intense heat and drought, Gaurav has worked tirelessly to harness the elements to restore the land, and the results are astonishing. We talk about the power of deep observation, ancestral wisdom, and how we could live in better harmony with Nature to create abundance for all.

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