Champaner-Pavagadh – Managing conflicts – A conservation challenge

Champaner-Pavagadh Archaeological Park is a highly complex heritage site with a 16th century medieval Sultanate capital city buried beneath a thick forest cover and landscape characterised by plateaus, mounds and streams. (Refer Figure 1).Although stripped off its glorious past and since forgotten; it is widely visited by pilgrims from all over the western region of India as it is one of the Shakti Peeths and also an important Jain pilgrimage centre. (Refer Figure 2).