Nivedita Tuli (she/her) is an urban ecologist and educator. She is a Research Fellow at Hyderabad Urban Lab Foundation, where she is leading Project Critterabad, an experimental ecology and nature education programme.
Encounters with an ‘invasive’ tree prompted an urban ecologist to reflect on the labels of “foreign” and “alien”, and her experiences as a descendant of refugees and a migrant in a new city.