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 / 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 / Endangered Shola forest in Palni hills, Western Ghats, Tamil Nadu, India

Jean-Pierre Zwaenepoel / Nilgiri Tahr {Hemitragus hylocrius} endangered, in montane evergreen shola forest habitat, Western Ghats, SW India

Ian Lockwood / Shola forest Palini hills, Western Ghats, Tamil Nadu, India

Ian Lockwood / Pambadam shola forest, Top Station, Western Ghats, Tamil Nadu, India

Ian Lockwood / Shola forest at Pillar Rocks shunted montane TRF, W Ghats Palni Hills Tamil Nadu India