Conservation

Amazon India has started a multi-fold approach to reduce its carbon footprint across its operations in areas like energy, water and waste management. Here’s how.

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.

Padma Shri awardee Kerala's Dr Sosamma Iype embarked upon a mission in the 80s to save the unique Vechur cattle breed from extinction.

Abdul Kareem from Kerala single-handedly turned 27 acres of barren land into a flourishing forest of 5000 trees that today hosts innumerable varieties of flora and fauna.

Wildlife warrior Ramki Sreenivasan started the non-profit Conservation India (CI) and Friends of the Amur Falcon to stop the illegal poaching of over one lakh of the threatened migratory birds in Nagaland.

Anil Bishnoi, a farmer and activist from Rajasthan, shares how he saved 10,000 blackbucks and chinkaras who are now protected across 60 panchayats while also building them ponds so that they can survive the summer heat.

Dr Varad Giri is a herpetologist who has created hundreds of citizen scientists by helping them discover new species of amphibians and reptiles