Aparna Menon

Meet Shyam Bihari Prasad, or 'Uncle' as he is known to his 30 wards, who teaches street kids on a pavement in Vasant Kunj, Delhi.

The gharial is endemic to the Indian subcontinent. Since the late 1970s, efforts have been on in the country to conserve and rehabilitate this critically endangered fish-eating crocodile.

Indian conservationists are studying and preserving 'rock art', ancient paintings and engravings on the walls of caves scattered across the country.

These innovative cow dung planters help reduce the menace of plastic bags, which cause pollution and sickness in animals.

Everyone knows the mantra for saving our environment from further degradation is – 'Reduce, Reuse and Recycle.' But for many people, although reduce and reuse are easy enough to practice, recycling is difficult. Pom Pom was established just to take care of this problem.

Indian marine scientists found a dead coral reef from 10,000 years ago in the Gulf of Kutch. They revived it successfully - a world first!

Olive Ridley Turtles come back year after year to the place of their birth on the beaches of Odisha, to mate in the waters along the shore and lay their eggs in sandy nests. Conservationists and scientists are now educating the locals to help protect these endangered marine reptiles.

Donkeys are hardy animals, domesticated by communities around the world, which often exploit these hard working creatures. The Donkey Sanctuary, established in the UK, works with many countries to help sensitise the owners of these beasts of burden.

Birds suffer from respiratory diseases, they get paralysis, some suffer from rickets and little baby birds are prone to chickenpox in summer.... these are some of the problems that are dealt with on a daily basis by the doctors and the group of humans with large hearts, who are the founder board members of the Charity Bird Hospital at Gurgaon.

Bioneer is a revolutionary machine that can create compost from organic waste in just 24 hours. An innovation of Mumbai-based Excel Industries Private Limited, this product is in the market now.