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In southern India’s tea country, small but mighty efforts are brewing to bring back native forests [Video]

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Workers pluck tea leaves using cutters at a tea estate in Nilgiris district, India, Wednesday, Sept. 25, 2024. (AP Photo/Aijaz Rahi)

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By Sibi Arasu The Associated Press

UDHAGAMANDALAM, India (AP) — Scattered groves of native trees, flowers and the occasional prehistoric burial ground are squeezed between hundreds of thousands of tea shrubs in southern India’s Nilgiris region — a gateway to a time before colonization and the commercial growing of tea that reshaped the country’s mountain landscapes.

These sacred groves once blanketed the Western Ghats mountains, but nearly 200 years ago, British colonists installed rows upon rows of tea plantations. The few groves that stand today are either protected by Indigenous communities who preserve them for their faith and traditions, or are being grown and tended back into existence by ecologists who remove tea trees from disused farms and plant seeds native to this biodiverse region. It takes …

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