New Website

Its been a while in the making, but its finally here! Still a bit rough around the edges, but we’re getting there.
We hope to use this space as a blog of sorts to keep up to date with our work.
Let hope more posts fill up this space!

Human Elephant Interactions

Understanding how people and elephants have managed to live alongside each other for centuries, allowing for some level of continued coexistence into the future

Culture and Conservation

Trying to understand  and document elements of indigenous culture and that significant links to nature conservation

The Lantana Project

Making invasives useful – helping indigenous communities convert lantana in furniture and fuel

Who we are

The Shola Trust is a non-profit, Charitable Trust involved in nature conservation in the Nilgiri region of South India. A group of young people based in Gudalur, at the edge of the Mudumalai Tiger Reserve, who are keen on doing something to protect the natural world around us. Most of us have ‘regular’ jobs, but spend the better part of our time working on conservation. We believe everyone is a wildlife enthusiast, excited at the prospect of seeing an elephant or tiger, and we try to help channel this enthusiasm towards conservation.

The Sholas are a unique forest type, endemic to the southern part of the western ghats, and were the inspiration for us to start this organisation, hence the name.