Conservation

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.

Known as the Tuber Man of Kerala, Shaji NM from Wayanad grows over 200+ varieties of tubers and has distributed seeds to over 12000 farmers across the state.

Raphi Ramanath, a biology teacher at Vignjana Vilasini Higher Secondary School (VVHSS) in Kerala, has set up a herbal garden with 150 plants and a Miyawaki forest with over 450 trees on campus.

Chavara Public School in Kerala is working its way to becoming Kerala’s first carbon-neutral school through its unique green initiatives.