The Auroville Botanical Garden has been established in response to the disappearing Tropical Dry Evergreen Forest of the Coromandel Coast, south India, and to the global need for the conservation of genetic diversity in the plant kingdom in a wide range of climatic conditions. The Auroville Botanical Garden was started in August 2000 on 50 acres of old cashew land rescued from the threat of real estate development. The Gardens have seen a remarkable growth since then. The site has been transformed into a luxuriant landscape that serves as an area for research into environmentally sustainable approaches to land management, as well as a location for environmental education. More than 310 tree species have been planted in the 25-acre arboretum, 5,500 specimens have been planted in the 10-acre conservation forest, and a TDEF plant nursery has been created, capable of producing 50,000 seedlings per year to promote the re-introduction of the indigenous flora of the region.
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Auroville Botanical Services Botanical Services is the commercial unit of the Auroville Botanical Garden dedicated to bringing ecologically sustainable solutions to the commercial, private and government sectors, drawing on the cumulative experiences of the Auroville Township, as well as the past years’ experience of creating the Auroville Botanical Garden, in how to create beauty in an ecologically vulnerable area.
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