How India lost its finest Banni grasslands to an exotic species called Prosopis Juliflora

The Banni grasslands in Kutch, Gujarat, span over 2,600 square kilometres (sq km). These grasslands are home to a pastoral community called the Maldhari. But in the 1960s, the government wanted to protect this region from salinity ingress from the Rann of Kutch and dropped millions of seeds of an exotic species called Prosopis Juliflora from helicopters.