Neelakurinji facing threat from unregulated tourism, infra expansion: report

The Jawaharlal Nehru Tropical Botanic Garden and Research Institute (JNTBGRI), Kerala has submitted a study earlier the National Green Tribunal stating that Strobilanthes kunthiana popularly known arsenic Neelakurinji, an endemic shrub seen successful the Western Ghats, is nether menace from factors that see unregulated tourism and infrastructure expansion.

The Principal Bench of the tribunal successful New Delhi had taken suo motu cognisance of the study “Neelkurinji becomes a ‘threatened species’, officially” published successful The Hindu. It had directed the authorities of JNTBGRI to taxable a study connected the presumption and conservation of the purplish flowering shrub, which blooms erstwhile successful 12 years.