Sandesh Kadur / Shola grassland plant, Western Ghats, Southern India

Ian Lockwood / Shola forest at Pillar Rocks shunted montane tropical rainforest, Western Ghats, Palni Hills, Tamil Nadu India

Yashpal Rathore / Panorama of mountains with grassland habitat and shola forest, Kudremukh National Park, Western Ghats UNESCO Natural World Heritage Site, India. November 2013.

Sandesh Kadur / A summer sun descends beyond the characteristic crown of a moss covered Shola tree in the Anamalais, Kerala, Western Ghats, Southern India

Sandesh Kadur / Panoramic view of tea plantations in the Western Ghats, Southern India. Vast areas of shola grassland habitat were destroyed and used for cultivation of tea to satisfy the British taste for this exot...

Sandesh Kadur / Sholas, islands of rainforest in a sea of grass, Western Ghats, Southern India

Ian Lockwood / Large Scaled Pit Viper (Trimeresurus macrolepis) in a shola forest at an altitude of 2000 meters, endemic, Western Ghats, India

Ian Lockwood / Anai-Mudi peak, clouds and shola forest, Eravikulum NP, Western Ghats, Kerala, India. The endangered Nilgiri tahr live in this national park.

Ian Lockwood / Shola tropical rain forest at Pillar Rocks, Palni Hills, Western Ghats, Tamil Nadu, Southern India

Ian Lockwood / Inside Shola tropical rainforest, indigenous forest habitat, Palni Hills, Western Ghats, Tamil Nadu, Southern India

Ian Lockwood / Path through Shola tropical rainforest, indigenous forest habitat, Palni Hills, Western Ghats, Tamil Nadu, Southern India

Ian Lockwood / Un-terraced farm destroys topsoil near endagnered Shola habitat, Tamil Nadu, India