Indigenous communities along with forest officials have given Sessa Orchid Sanctuary a makeover to bring opportunities of community focused eco-tourism.

She prefers her homemade fertilizers and pesticides like Amritpani, cow dung fertilizer and used Neem water and Akao leaves for pest control

To raise awareness and funds for elephant conservation, 75 tribal artisans worked on creating elephant models from Lantana, a weed.

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

Students walk up to a hilltop, daily, and water the sapling planted the previous day before putting a new one into the soil.

Sunderlal Bahuguna may have departed, but there are many formidable repositories of diverse oral and embodied knowledge.

The streams are providing cleaner water to the river and the perception of locals has also changed.

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

The Community has been organizing, monitoring, conserving and preserving the bio-diversity in Khonoma area for 20 years