bee conservation

K A Ponnanna from Karnataka joined IISc as a security guard, but began serving as a field assistant at the Centre for Ecological Sciences and helped mentor students in handling bees and collecting samples for research

Chartered accountant Pratik Ghoda from Ahmedabad, Gujarat, quit his job after 14 years to launch Bee Base Pvt Ltd, which also works for the conservation of bees

With the rise in construction and infrastructural developments, there is little space for the bees to pollinate especially in the urban cityscapes.

The initiative is part of a greater mission, under which they envision distributing 1.3 lakh bee-boxes across four corners of the country, before November 2018.