hills

hills

Rag-pickers search for reusable items in a large dumping site along with dogs and birds. They pry into the piles of waste and pick what they can reuse and recycle.

river · hills

The northern plains are an important physical division of India. They are situated to the south of the Himalayas. These plains are also known as the Indo-Gangetic Plains.

monsoon · forest

Natural disasters are extreme forces of nature that result in the death and destruction of lives of people and property.

livestock · forest

Habitat is a place where all plants and animals co-exist, their basic needs like food and shelter are adequate, and they can reproduce their young ones. They develop special features that help them to survive in those conditions.

hills · river

The Peninsular Plateau is almost triangular in shape. It begins from the Northern Plains and extends till Kanniyakumari, the southern tip of India. To the north-west of this plateau lie the Aravalli Hills.

hills · birds

We have grown up listening to stories and poems about the 'wise old owl'. In this chapter, we read how the narrator's family rescued tiny spotted owlets. Let us take a closer look at some owlets found in India.

monsoon · farmland

Did you know that rice is actually a grass and we eat its seed? Rice is the main food crop in most parts of the world. It forms the staple food for many people in India too. The most common method of growing rice is by transplantation.

hills · river

In this chapter, we learnt about many strange and mysterious natural and man made wonders. India, being a vast country, is full of many more such wonders. One such natural wonder is found in Mizoram.

hills · flowers

Take a flight of fancy over the middle Himalayan forests protected by wildfilmsindia. This wild Cherry or padum tree grows within the protected zone in Uttarakhand.

Uttarakhand·birds · hills

Some of the bird species that wildfilmsindia protects at its Wilderness Orchard and botanical gardens in the western Himalayan town of Landour in Mussoorie. The Collared Pygmy Owlet is the smallest Owl in the world.

flowers · hills

This lovely wild Prunus Cerasoides or the Himalayan Wild Cherry flowers from October to December and is a rich source of nectar for bees. Known as Payyan in Garhwal, this tree is never cut, as it is protected by the hill people.

flowers · hills

The Wilderness Orchard and Himalayan botanical garden comes together with a major round of autumn planting of bulbs all of which have started flowering this winter-spring! Visit us in Uttarakhand, if you're in this part of the world...

flowers · hills

The birth of a Himalayan garden! The Hundred Acre Woods comes together... Watch Wilderness Films personnel plant beds of flower bulbs in time for winter rooting and spring flowering, at the Wilderness Orchard and botanical garden in Uttarak…

hills · forest

Last week was the end of spring and summer was well under way, at the Wilderness Orchard and botanical gardens in the Uttarakhand Himalaya, in this magical slow motion High Definition footage.

Uttarakhand·flowers · hills

Satyrium nepalensis, a ground orchid seen at the Wilderness Orchard and botanical gardens in Mussoorie, Uttarakhand.

Uttarakhand·hills · farmland

With a view out to the lower hills and plains below, a lone Himalayan Cedar or deodar trees grows at the Wilderness Orchard and botanical gardens in Landour, Uttarakhand.

flowers · hills

The Wilderness Orchard botanical garden in Uttarakhand has splashes of colour as an entire hillside is painted with the blooms of dahlia, Yucca aloifolia, Cosmos and a lovely yellow flower that grows on a tall flowering stalk.

Uttarakhand·birds · hills

The Wilderness Orchard and botanical garden in Mussoorie, Uttarakhand, protects this population of Black Bulbuls that feed on seasonal fruit in our forest and orchard.

flowers · hills

Some of the finest plum blossoms and then fruit come from the Wilderness Orchard and Botanical gardens in the western Himalaya. One can hear a White-crested Laughing Thrush calling in the background.

hills · flowers

Welcome to the Wilderness Orchard and botanical gardens in the Uttarakhand Himalaya, with our March 2015 spring-time display of Daffodils and narcissus, flower bed edging of Muscari or grape hyacinth, gone-wild garden escape bearded blue Ir…

flowers · hills

An Indian Tortoiseshell butterfly (Aglais cashmiriensis) takes in nectar from plum blossoms at wildfilmsindia's Wilderness Orchard and botanical garden in the western Himalayan state of Uttarakhand.

Uttarakhand·birds · hills

A flurry or bird activity on a winter's morning, at the Wilderness Orchard and botanical gardens in Landour.

flowers · hills

Wild Viola biflora growing at the Wilderness Orchard and botanical gardens in Uttarakhand. This plant's roots are the source of the Indian ayurvedic medicine known as banafsha.