Krystelle Dsouza

Wild At Heart aims to celebrate community conservation, species diversity and exemplary initiatives that are helping make nature and conservation part of an everyday dialogue.

The bagh mitras of Pilibhit Tiger Reserve are trained community mediators; they ease tensions, spread awareness, and show how coexistence can thrive through compassion and conversation.

Wildlife Trust of India’s 'Amphibian Recovery Project' works to protect India’s threatened frog and toad species through habitat restoration, population monitoring, and community engagement.

A community-led initiative in Bhopal is empowering young volunteers to protect tigers and prove that coexistence between people and the wild is possible.

Vihaan Talya Vikas is a 12-year-old from Bengaluru whose picture won the 'Wildlife Photographer of the Year' award in 2023. Vihaan’s love for nature is slowly evolving into an intent to protect the wild, conserve forests, and ensure his generation grows up in a world where forests still stand tall, rivers still flow free, and the wild continues to thrive.

In the wet markets of Northeast India, illegal pangolin trade once posed a major threat to the numbers of the species of the world’s most trafficked mammal. But a unique project is now helping.

High in the cliffs of Nagaland, the Khiamniungan honey hunters practice a vanishing art that blends livelihood, ritual, and reverence for the wild.

Once royal trackers and hunters, the Pardhi community of Panna now uses its age-old forest skills to protect the very wildlife it once pursued.

The Stone House in Jaipur is built using pink sandstone and lime. Kamal Malik, the architect behind the project, shares how the home is an ode to the legacy of Rajasthan.

Once hunters of Mangalajodi’s wetland birds, the villagers of this Odisha community have, since 1998, transformed into dedicated conservationists and guardians of their local habitat.