Environment

Bengaluru fisherman Arokiyaswamy Shamanna built an innovative machine out of an old ambassador car engine to remove water hyacinth choking the Hebbal Lake. And it's already helping 100 families

Ruchita Jagzap is an architect who shuffles between Mumbai and Ahmedabad. She is also an urban designer by profession and the mother to a 4-year-old and shares the joys of gardening during the lockdown and the experience of planting over 101 saplings in her society.

Marine biologist and former professor Dr Mantha Ram Murthy founded the Dolphin Nature Conservation Society in 2001, and with help of volunteers and students, converted a waste land in the premises of a hospital into a lush biodiversity park.

In 2017, Ganesan D from Chennai founded the Koodugal Trust, wherein he distributes handmade boxes to highlight the importance of creating nesting spaces for sparrows, whose population has been decreasing due to rapid urbanisation.

Villagers of Vadner Bhairav, located near Nashik, banded together to save their village from a water shortage by building ponds and barrages, growing grapes, and incorporating sustainable methods of farming to mitigate the crisis

Sagar Pradhan from Odisha is an author and software engineer, who has been using the royalty money he has earned from his written work to plant thousands of trees and revive ponds

Aaliya Mir, a resident of Srinagar, spends her days rescuing deadly vipers from Kashmiri homes, saving bear cubs and reuniting them with their mother and tracing leopard trails in the villages.

Anirudh Chaoji from Nagpur used rainwater harvesting, crop rotation, and solar systems to revive the ecosystem of his ancestral land, while also resolving the man-animal conflict in near Umred Karhandla Wildlife Sanctuary and Tadoba Andhari Tiger Reserve.

Did you know? Unsustainable production of palm oil is clouded in controversy and often associated with deforestation and a threat to tropical biodiverse areas, endangering species like the orangutan, Sumatran tiger, rhinoceros, and many others. #KnowYourPalm

Working tirelessly for the last 20 years, school teacher Alok Tripathi from Madhya Pradesh transformed 3.5 acres of arid school property into a lush green oasis