History and Beginnings The Timbaktu Collective believes that the sustainable livelihood of the marginalised is intrinsically connected to restoration and management of commons. The first initiative of the Collective was an experiment in restoration of a piece of barren land, which was called...

In 8 villages across the Banni, we set up experimental plots to monitor grassland recovery under the two prevailing Prosopis-management methods practiced by local communities, removal and lopping (for charcoal). (Although Banni has traditionally been a landscape used by pastoralists, many...

We have been conducting extensive research on various aspects of hornbill ecology for over two decades in Arunachal Pradesh. The broader vision of this work is to see hornbill conservation and protection of their habitats, integrated into local community institutions, with our technical and...

The Forest Way grew out of work begun in 2003 to address this situation. Even earlier efforts by both the Forest Department and other local groups had shown that it was possible to grow trees once more on the Hill, but without dealing with the annual fires, the benefit of these efforts was...

Kishan Bagh is a restored set of sand dunes that had collected at the base of a hill. The objective was to plant it up with grasses and shrubs in order to achieve the look and feel of a 'Roee' habitat, which is what you find out in the Thar Desert near Jaisalmer. We also wanted to lead visitors...

The sub-Himalayan grasslands that occur along the Himalayan foothills, which eventually converge into the plains. These grasslands at the regional scale provide crucial wildlife habitat to a multitude of species, and safeguards human well-being by ensuring water availability. At the global...

The afforestation of the exhausted limestone mines in Pandalgudi began in earnest in Dec 2018, after an initial site visit in August of the same year. Previous to this, over the previous 2 years, various pilot projects had been undertaken to assess the use of native species for this kind of...

The private and public lands under the Gurukula stewardship through its ecosystem gardening programmes and the community outreach initiative called the Green Phoenix,  include first order stream with riparian vegetation, swampy valley fields and hill slopes of the  land has been clear-felled in...

The Asia Plateau or Panchgani tableland located in Panchgani hill station, is a famous tourist spot in Satara District of Northern Western Ghats. It is included in the Mahabaleshwar-Panchgani Ecosensitive Zone as a Conservation Zones and a Natural Heritage Site. Geology, geomorphology, flora...

This project is part of Northern Western Ghats in state of Maharashtra. It is in the village of Van-Kuswade from Satara district. This 24 acre land is owned by film actor Atul Kulkarni, actor Dhiresh Joshi and their families. As a first step, we surveyed the entire watershed of Van Kuswade...