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(1 Oct 2006)
Munnar - 8 September 2006
1. Wide of mountains, tea garden in foreground
2. Tea plantations with a blanket of thick tea bushes
3. Tracking shot along mountains
4. Mountain goat the 'Niligiri Tahr' amid rare flower Neelakurinji (Strobilanthes kunthiana)
5. Various of rare flower
6. Tracking shot over flower blooms
7. Wide of mountain slope with rare flower blooming
Thiruvananthapuram - 9 September 2006
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Professor Nair, Department of Botany at University of Kerala :
"This is really a legendary plant, that it flowers only once in 12 years. And the beauty of it is that it has established into a big population and all of them flower together - it is a synchronised flowering. So that makes the beauty on the slopes of the hills especially in Eravikulam National Park , Palni hills and all."
Munnar - 8 September 2006
9. Sign for Eravikulam National Park
10. Flower in bloom inside park , mountains in the background
11. Pan of crowds and queues of visitors waiting to enter Eravikulam to see the rare flower in bloom
12. Various of tourists
13. Rare mountain goat in park
14. Tourists walking through park looking at flowers
15. Various of rare flowers
16. SOUNDBITE (English) Mr Singh, tourist :
"It is a beautiful sight with beautiful weather with beautiful valleys and with mountains - I don't think there is anywhere in India this kind of sight is seen. It is a beautiful experience."
17. Various of workers plucking leaves in tea garden
18. Woman emptying bag with collected tea leaves onto a sheet
19. Close up of tea leaves
20. Wide of mist rolling in over expanse of rare flower
Thiruvananthapuram - 9 September 2006
21. SOUNDBITE (English) Professor Nair, Department of Botany at University of Kerala :
"It is an amazing thing which never occurs anywhere in the world. And as you know that it is an endemic (confined to one place) species, so it is present only in certain narrow pockets. Though the population has dwindled, mainly because of the encroachment, especially the plantations, the tea plantations. The Britishers (referring to the former British colonial presence in India) have started destroying the (flower) population so it is very important and need of the hour that we conserve this very unique species, which has got this this very valuable kind of flowering and it is a kind of instinct for survival for the plant itself."
Munnar - 8 September 2006
22. Close up of rare flower
23. Close up of honey bee on flower
24. Flowers
25. SOUNDBITE (English) Roy Thomas, wildlife warden:
"We are trying to conserve Neelakurinji in its habitat - that's the most important thing we want to emphasise here, the conservation of Neelakurinji. During the last two blooms there was heavy destruction in the plant. So this year we have taken steps to control the destruction of Neelakurinji plant."
26. Various of rare flower
27. Wide of flower in bloom on mountain
LEAD IN:
The flower species known as Neelakurinji only flowers once every twelve years.
2006 is one of those years and from August to October the hills of the Western Ghats are carpeted in purple flowers.
STORYLINE :
The Western Ghats, the lofty mountain ranges in southern India, are witnessing one of the most eagerly awaited phenomena for nature lovers - the spectacular blooming of the Neelakurinji flower.
Every 12 years, Kerala's famed tea plantation region plays host to the Neelakurinji (botanical name: Strobilanthes kunthiana), a species of flowering shrub that blooms in the high altitudes.
'Neela' means blue in the Malayalam language and 'Kurinji' is the local name of the flower.

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