Smitha Hegde is one of the country's topmost experts on one of the earliest land plants to appear on Earth - ferns. Based in Mangaluru, the pteridologist studies the evolution of ferns in the Western Ghats. In this episode, she talks about a problem in Kudremukh National Park that she was called upon to deal with.

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