Core Organisations
Kalpavriksh is a non profit organisation established in 1979. It works on issues of environment and social justice at local, national and global levels.
Kenono Foundation works towards strengthening community conservation in Nagaland and developing conservation enterprises around coffee, ecotourism and carbon credits in order to support conservation.
Metastring Foundation is a non profit organization building technology platforms for democratizing data in the fields of environment and health.
Seva Mandir works in over 1300 villages in Udaipur District of Rajasthan addressing the problems of resource management, livelihoods improvement, and village-level governance.
Facilitating Team
Neema Pathak Broome
Kalpavriksh
Neema is M.Sc. in Environmental Science and has a postgraduate diploma in wildlife management. She has been involved with documentation, research, analysis and advocacy related to inclusive conservation governance in India and South Asia for over 25 years.
Tanya Majmudar
Kalpavriksh
Tanya has been a part of Kalpavriksh since 2014. She currently works on community conserved areas and environmental books for children.
Prabhakar Rajagopal
Metastring Foundation
Prabhakar is an engineer with a PhD in Ecological Sciences from the Indian Institute of Science. He is an enthusiastic proponent of open source, open data and open science as knowledge commons.
Rudrath Avinashi
Kalpavriksh
For over 3 years, Rudrath has engaged in various processes pertaining to documentation, research, networking, data curation and advocacy of community conserved areas.
Ruchinilo Kemp
Kenono Foundation
Ruchinilo is a conservationist & social entrepreneur. His journey began with SBI Foundation Youth for India and now has over 9 years of experience working in the area of community conservation, climate change adaptation and rural enterprise development.
Dr. GPS Jhala
Seva Mandir
Dr. Jhala is an Ethnobotanist, with a journey of 25+ years in the field of Ethno-botanical knowledge promotion and research as well as community based conservation management of ecosystem. He is placed at Seva Mandir as a Programme Coordinator - Afforestation.
Technical Support
Late Harsh Zalavadiya
Front-end engineer working at Strand Life Sciences, he loved crafting beautiful user interfaces and cooking. We tragically lost Harsh in an accident on a suspension bridge in Morbi, Gujarat.
Thomas Vattakevan
Thomas is a microbiologist by training, nature lover by passion. He is deeply interested in biodiversity, biodiversity informatics and engaging the public on creating awareness on these issues.
Vilay Kandi
Vilay is a back-end software engineer
Advisory board
Aman Singh
KRAPAVIS
Aman Singh is an ardent advocate for Orans (community forests and pasture lands) in Rajasthan and the founder of KRAPAVIS (Krishi Avam Paristhitiki Vikas Sansthan), based in Alwar and works in various parts of Rajasthan.
Malika Virdi
Founder Director, Himal Prakriti
Malika is a farmer and has worked towards strengthening community control over the forest commons of Uttarakhand for over 2 decades. She has twice served as Sarpanch of the Sarmoli-Jainti Van Panchayat.
Ravi Chellam
CEO, Metastring Foundation
E. Somanathan
Indian Statistical Institute, Delhi
Dr. Sushil Saigal
Director of Programs, The Nature Conservancy, India
Sushil has around 30 years of experience of working on issues related to natural resources management, climate change, and conservation – from field to policy level.
Bhavana Rabari
Founder member, Pastoral Women Alliance
Bhavana is a pastoralist. She has over 10 years of experience of working with pastoralist women in Gujarat. Currently, she is associated with MARAG.
Sumit Dookia
Sr. Assistant Professor, Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University, New Delhi
Sumit is working with local communities for the conservation and documentation of village commons in Rajasthan and Haryana. He is also Founding Member and Trustee of Ecology, Rural Development and Sustainability (ERDS) Foundation.
Mihir Kumar Jena
Falguni Associates
Mihir is a researcher at King's college London (Department of Anthropology and Politics) and is currently working remotely in Odisha. He also works as a freelancer.
G. Areendran
WWF - India
Areendran Gopala: is a Director in IGCMC (Remote sensing & GIS ) WWF, India and is involved in several WWF-India’s scientific projects using a range of GIS and Remote Sensing techniques.
Sahil Nijhawan
NCF
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