Conservation

She is currently working on a project called Wildseve which has helped over 7000 families file wildlife-compensation claims and receiving their rightful benefits.

They are not the heroes we deserve, but the ones we need, especially at a time when our insatiable needs are eradicating almost all large forms of life on the planet.

A native of Ekalkhori village near Jodhpur, Ranaram Bishnoi has been defying his age for decades years now, in his crusade to turn the barren desert adjoining his village totally green.

Today, if you walk along the Jakkur Lake premises, you will find many known and lesser-known medicinal herbs, aromatic shrubs, as well as rare and red-listed endemic trees lining the area, where community and conservation zones coexist.

According to the residents, the harvesting facility has considerably reduced their dependence on Chennai Metrowater, and they even put the excess water from the sump to use by letting it out to soak pits using valves.

Situated near Thailand’s oldest wildlife sanctuary Salakpra, this 15-acre stretch is a nature lover’s paradise teaming with wild animals and birds.

In a major raid, over 122 artifacts have just been recovered from the farmhouse of Chennai-based businessman Ranvir Shah.

Plog.Run is an initiative spearheaded by a group of environmentally mindful individuals from the Garden City, who have teamed up with organisations like Go Native, Namma Nimma Cycle Foundation and Let’s Be The Change to make this initiative a success!

The project was selected in the first phase of a Smart India Hackathon--Hardware edition--where more than 600 teams participated. The students also won a cash prize of Rs 50,000.

PT Shinde attached sentimental values to this task and encouraged villagers to gift a sapling to the families celebrating special occasions. He even encouraged them to gift a sapling to a family in memory of a loved one they lost.