Conservation

Nine-year-old Thaaragai and her father Aravind Tharunsri are on a mission to make the ocean a better place for marine life. They regularly conduct beach and ocean clean-ups and marine conservation awareness sessions.

Wildlife photographers Rohit and Kalyan Varma share 12 stunning shots from their repository at Nature inFocus, a collective of like-minded wildlife enthusiasts from across the world.

Raphi Ramanath, a biology teacher from Kerala, has set up a herbal garden with 150 plants and a Miyawaki forest with over 450 trees on his school campus.

Goa-born Gabriella D' Cruz believes seaweed is the crop of the future. The marine conservationist is working with chefs to co-create recipes using seaweed, and shares how it could tackle many of India’s most pressing issues.

Purnima Devi Barman is leading the ‘Hargila Army’ of women in Assam to protect the endangered adjutant stork or hargilas.

Venkatesh Charloo came back to India from Hong Kong, and founded Coastal Impact, a project to transplant coral fragments and save them. This is how he is saving Goa’s coral reefs.

Here’s the story of Malarvizhli Akka, a social worker in Tamil Nadu who helped residents of Chinnapallikuppam village end decades of water woes by reviving a 2-acre pond

Zest Outdoor, an outdoor advertising agency in Mumbai, has installed solar panels on billboards at 17 locations in the city. The electricity generated is being supplied to the Western Railways, free of cost.

Kandal Rajan from Kannur, Kerala, has been conserving the mangrove belt on the Pazhayandi River for over four decades. He also owns a small mangrove nursery with 5,000 saplings at home.

Kerala-based Gopalakrishnan KR, a retired bank employee, used his retirement benefits to convert a 1-acre rubber plantation into a mini forest with hundreds of fruit trees, medicinal plants, and more.