In the face of rampant urbanization and the severe consequences of climate change, Indian environmentalist Arun Krishnamurthy has mobilized the public, including scores of young volunteers, to help clean, restore and rehabilitate his country’s lakes.įollowing a distress call informing him that his cousin had died in a road accident where no bystanders came forward to support the victim, Piyush Tewari was propelled into finding solutions to this problem in India and has since dedicated himself to saving thousands of lives across the country and beyond.Īnita Studer, a Swiss ornithologist who went to Brazil to study its rich array of bird life, has, through sheer determination and dedication, inspired Brazilians to save their forests and changed thousands of lives for the better in what is now her second home. Mexican biologist Rodrigo Medellín has devoted his life to demonstrating how bats, one of the most universally feared and hated mammals, are, in fact, a boon to humanity and agriculture. For over three decades, Argentine biologist Luis Jácome has been working to save one of the world’s largest flying birds from extinction. Two centuries ago, the Andean condor soared across the skies of the Andes, but today its population has been massively reduced mainly by human interventions. Explore and protect the Indian Ocean’s deep coral reefsĪ hundred metres or more beneath the ocean surface in the Maldives lies a twilight zone whose wondrous corals and strange life remain unexplored.Local people from one of the world’s wildest and most isolated places, the mountainous Himalaya region of Humla in Nepal, are being enlisted as frontline conservators to rescue dwindling wild animal populations – from snow leopards to wild yaks. Promote local initiatives for biodiversity conservation in Nepal’s Trans-Himalaya.Explore and study the world’s northern-most caves for new insights into climate change in the Arcticīritish climate researcher Gina Moseley will cross one of the world’s last frontiers in exploration when she abseils into the planet’s most northerly unexplored Arctic caves seeking clues to the planet’s climatic past.American social entrepreneur Felix Brooks-church has an answer: an ingenious system to ensure that each meal consumed by every mother and infant living in an underprivileged society contains essential, life-saving nutrients. Poor nutrition contributes to 15,000 preventable child deaths daily worldwide. Eradicate malnutrition in Tanzania, one fortified bag at a time.The country’s largest lake, which bears the nation’s name and supports 30 million people, has almost vanished in barely two generations. The reality of climate change is known to few better than the people of Chad.
Use indigenous peoples’ knowledge to map resources and prevent conflict around climate in Chad.Romulus Whitaker’s childhood fascination with snakes has led him to devote his life to protecting the environment, in particular rainforests.
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