citizen science
Community rain monitoring helps disaster preparedness

Community-led rain and river monitoring fills critical gaps in official datasets, enabling early warnings and timely action. Integrating community-generated data into formal disaster management frameworks offers a scalable, democratic model for climate adaptation.

Tracking seasons through changing tree behaviour

Citizen science platforms, such as SeasonWatch, are generating large-scale, long-term biodiversity data that help track ecological responses to climate change, such as changes in species distribution, flowering times, and migration patterns.

Plant Man Miguel Braganza on how Konkan Fruit Fest preserves food biodiversity

The motto: To preserve, celebrate and propagate the region’s rich variety of local fruits and vegetables and its corollary food heritage and culture

Nagaland’s Y Nuklu Phom wins prestigious Whitley Award 2021 for his ‘biodiversity peace corridor’

Once indiscriminately hunted, the falcons have in recent years seen successful conservation by local communities.

Navi Mumbai couple fights to save a bird haven from becoming a golf course

"This wetland should be declared amongst protected areas associated with Thane Creek Flamingo Sanctuary ....”

Nagaland Students Setup Mini Hydropower Plant, Power Highway Street Lights

“Project Brighter Khuzama is wholly funded by like-minded locals and not by any governmental organisations."

Madhya Pradesh’s ‘fluoride warriors’ unleash citizen science to empower community

Getting citizens to be vigilant, contribute data and having students as data producers and messengers are excellent learnings

समता, न्याय और सातत्यता की तरफ भारत: एक जन घोषणापत्र – फरवरी, 2019 (in Hindi)

आगामी राष्ट्रीय चुनावों के संबंध में राजनीतिक दलों को भेजा गया ...

People’s Manifesto For a Just, Equitable, and Sustainable India (2019)

Sent to political parties in relation to the upcoming national elections...