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Shravan Kavadia Inland Mangrove Sacred Grove
Eastern Banni grassland, Kachchh district, Gujarat
India
Active (Hindu pilgrimage at Shravan Kavadia temple)
Single grove
- Location
- Eastern Banni grassland, Kachchh district, Gujarat
- Coordinates
- 23°24'31.4"N, 69°58'19.5"E; 2–5 m asl
- Elevation
- 2-5 m
- Size
- Not specified (land-locked patch)
- Age / Founded
- Ancient (Rann of Kachchh was a shallow sea >2 millennia ago)
- Status
- Active (Hindu pilgrimage at Shravan Kavadia temple)
- Deity & Religion
- Shravan Kavadia (Hindu pilgrimage site)
- Community & Guardians
- Local Kachchh inhabitants
- Vernacular name
- Devsthan (sacred grove)
- Record type
- Single grove
Cultural practices & uses
Pilgrimage; fire/logging/fuelwood collection religiously prohibited
Plant species
Avicennia marina — world's only inland-mangrove sacred grove (80 km from coast, 150 km from Arabian Sea)
Biome & fauna
Land-locked relict inland mangrove in arid Banni
Threats & protection
At risk (Scientific Correspondence flags threat); religiously protected
Source
'The world's only inland mangrove in sacred grove of Kachchh, India, is at risk', Current Science