forest

Uttarakhand·flowers · forest

Garden Cosmos (Cosmos bipinnatus) flowers swaying in the direction of the wind on the hillsides of Wildfilmsindia's private reserve in Jabbarkhet.

Uttarakhand·forest · hills

The Gangotri peak wall and Jaonli as seen from wildfilmsindia's protected forests at Jabbarkhet in Garhwal, near Landour.

monsoon · forest

Watering time for the trees and forest, as clouds roll in at dusk! The monsoon is ripe for arrival and water shedding over the Water Towers of the world - the Himalaya! Monsoon clouds roll in over wildfilmsindia forests at Jabbarkhet, Uttar…

Uttarakhand·forest · hills

Himalayan Cedar forests or Cedrus deodara at the wildfilmsindia sanctuary at Jabbarkhet, Landour, Uttarakhand. Black-capped or Rufous Sibia and Red-headed Tits are calling.

Uttarakhand·hills · forest

Rain clouds swirl in over the lower hills of Mussoorie, and up to the wildfilmsindia forests at Motidhar and Jabbarkhet, as post spring summer time rains hit the hill stations forests and hills, in a wonderful respite from the dry season.

Uttarakhand·forest

In the middle of a summer day, the wind suddenly picks up and the oak trees expose the white undersides of their leaves, at our wildfilmsindia sanctuary, as a summer storm suddenly hits the hill.

Uttarakhand·hills · forest

Early winter flowers turn brown after the monsoon profusion, as they cover the slopes of Pari Tibba in Motidhar, in wildfilmsindia protected forests around Mussoorie.

forest · hills

Our wildfilmsindia team was subject to a massive hail storm that threw hail stones the size of golf balls down on our wildlife sanctuary, battering our spring flowering plants and trees, killing off the thousands of daffodil blooms and all…

Uttarakhand·forest

The peaks of Himachal, and the western Garhwal range west of Banderpunch can be seen from our wildlife sanctuary in Garhwal. See Mt. Jaonli peak as seen from wildfilmsindia sanctuary at Jabbarkhet in Uttarakhand.

forest · hills

The cartographers said there was no peak where Hari Dang saw and climbed around Jaonli, until his Doon School group actually climbed it, in the 1960's, for the first time! Nag Tibba can also be seen from Jabbarkhet, covered as it is with wi…

Uttarakhand·hills · farmland

From our western Himalayan conservation field station, one looks right out to the Himalaya from each window of our rundown old godown cottage! The view makes one's day for it comprises of the peaks of Jaonli, Rudragaira and the Gangotri wal…

Uttarakhand·forest · hills

What fabulous evening winterline hues on Jaonli peak as seen from Iris Cottage at Jabbarkhet Estate, within the wildfilmsindia sanctuary in Uttarakhand.

Uttarakhand·forest · hills

This lovely old Himalayan Cedar or Deodar tree isn't that tall but it certainly is graceful and full of character! it sits at the edge of the Haunted House hill and the land falls away to the valley from that point onwards, so we call it La…

Uttarakhand·forest · hills

What fabulous evening winterline hues on Jaonli peak as seen from Iris Cottage at Jabbarkhet Estate, within the wildfilmsindia sanctuary in Uttarakhand.

Uttarakhand·forest · wildlife

An elusive Himalayan Indian Panther or Leopard with rossette spots picks on its bovine kill at night, while Red-billed Magpies come calling by day for a free feast, at our wildfilmsindia protected forests in Landour-Mussoorie in Uttarakhand…

Uttarakhand·forest · wildlife

Proof that wildfilmsindia's on-ground conservation initiatives are creating better managed Himalayan forests, with a good predator-prey balance, and adequate down-stream smaller predators and scavengers, all in undisturbed un-visited forest…

Uttarakhand·forest · hills

With a Common Hill Partridge of Peora calling, and Red-billed Blue Magpies squawking, the view from our Jabbarkhet hill of the Oak and Rhododendron forests around is a peaceful one, with Jaonli peak to the north, as seen through the Col of…

Uttarakhand·forest

A huge porcupine with its quills reined in appears before our camera trap in the dead of a winter's night at our wildfilmsindia forests at Jabbarkhet.

Uttarakhand·forest · hills

In the pre mating season of late winter, groups of Kalij Pheasant gambol and play around the forested Oak ridge at the wildfilmsindia wildlife sanctuary at Jabbarkhet in Uttarakhand.

Uttarakhand·forest · hills

As the day breaks, the folds of ranges stretching away into the eastern horizon, across the Himalaya, look towards Surkhanda Devi and Dhanolti, Kanatal and Chamba, while clouds float in. ..

hills · forest

Foraging without a care in the world, this Himalayan Mountain goat feels confident in the protection that wildfilmsindia provides it at our private wildlife sanctuary in Uttarakhand.

Uttarakhand·hills · flowers

On a forested slope at wildfilmsindia's Jabbarkhet mountains, garden run-wild Crocus Lilies flower in profusion, on Wilderness Orchard and botanical gardens slopes ravaged by forest fire less than two months back, in the Uttarakhand Himalay…

hills · forest

Himalayan dusk time lapse from Iris Cottage, across the deodar forested hills and east to Surkanda Devi temple hilltop and the Kanatal ridge, as seen from Jabbarkhet and Landour in Uttarakhand, from the wildfilmsindia wildlife sanctuary.