The decision to protect the Mangar Bani forest in Faridabad and a 500-metre buffer as a no-construction zone is a remarkable one. This declaration by Haryana chief minister Manohar Lal Khattar ...

For as long as the Bani (grove) has been around, villagers have helped safeguard it with the help of a robust community management system. So successful have they been as custodians that the grove has ...

So close to Delhi, nothing quite prepares you for the first view of Mangar Bani. Motoring down the Gurgaon-Faridabad highway with dusty scrub vegetation on both sides of the arid landscape, a sacred ...

A new study has found that the Aravalli forests in and around Faridabad’s Mangar village have become a crucial habitat for birds, recording the presence of 219 species in a 17 square kilometre area.

For generations, a community outside India’s capital has worked to protect their sacred grove from outside interests like mining and real estate. Despite being a biodiversity hotspot, the protection ...

New Delhi: When conservationist and author Neha Sinha took some of her friends birdwatching in Mangar Bani, Haryana, they saw a looming mountain in the distance and paused in admiration of what they ...

At the heart of this management system was Mangar Bani, a sacred grove extending over 274 hectares (677 acres) near Mangar village. -- For generations, a community outside New Delhi has worked to ...

Rock art, engravings, and tools in recently discovered caves and rock shelters in Mangar Bani, near Delhi, are probably from the Paleolithic era, and may be India’s oldest archaeological find. The ...