To see a flutter, fly – biodiversity around Lamb’s rock
A biodiversity trail around Lamb’s rock, as we explore the who’s who of the landscape! What will it reveal? Find out, this coming weekend! We meet up at Lamb’s rock view point (has vehicle parking facility). Please carry water and come prepared for monsoon showers. Date: 20th July, 2019 Time: 9 am Duration: 3 hours […]
Cleaning, the earth-friendly way
While the popular adage goes that too many cooks may well spoil the broth, in this case, too many hands did help raise a froth, and set us on the path to changing our outlook about household cleaning in the Nilgiris that could well save our water resources, not to mention, ourselves. A half-day workshop […]
Intricate weaves – the pastoral landscape of Bikkapathimund
The shola grassland mosaic is intricately woven into the pastoral way of life of the todas. Join us as we tread gently,upon the grassy greens at Bikkapathimund We meet up at Kengamudi bus stop. Please carry water. Date: 6th July, 2019 Time: 10 am Duration: 3 hours Trail difficulty: Easy Cost: NNHS members: 250/- | […]
Not Just Another Day at School!
On Saturday, 15 students of VSVMS, Vishwashanti, and CSI schools of Kotagiri met up with Shiny Rahel at Happy Valley, the site of a habitat restoration project in Kotagiri town that Keystone has been working on since 2006. The activity was organized by the Nilgiri Natural History Society and consisted of an interactive session discussing […]
A Conversation on Enterprise at the Traditional Knowledge Fair
It has been an exhilarating-tiring couple of days for us. The Bhooma Devi Women’s Self Help Group has just finished catering food for a two day Traditional Knowledge Fair. In keeping with the spirit of the Fair, the food served was traditional indigenous people’s fare – a millet spread of ragi, thenai, samai, keerai with […]
Traditional Knowledge Fair, 2014
“When I listen to the stories that my elders tell me it is like magic,I enjoy it and I want to listen to it all the time”- Niroshasin from Bikkapathy mund. 92 children from indigenous groups across the NBR quietly occupied the lawns of the Nehru Park at Kotagiri to tell the stories of their […]
International Tiger Day Celebrations
On the international day of the Tiger-29th July 2013, the NNHS organized an Art exhibition ‘Art for Tigers’. Three schools namely Hillfort, Riverside and St Thomas sent in their entries, which were displayed at the Bee museum on that day. The works of art were judged based on creativity and their understanding of the theme […]
Biodiversity workshop for kids
A program on biodiversity and conservation was held at the Bee Museum for the children of Sigur valley on the 21st of July. The NNHS teamed up with Bravin Kumar from the Zoo Outreach organization to conduct this daylong program with included several presentations, short movie screenings, games etc. Special emphasis was paid to small […]
World Environment Day’2013
The NNHS and BERU Foundation partnered up on the 5th of June to celebrate World Environment Day (WED) at Meedhane Village, Kotagiri. The children of the village designed several environmental themed posters that were put up at the venue. The program started with the introduction of the chief guest Mr Lakshmi Narayanan (Headmaster Hillfort School) and […]
Garbage to Garden
A presentation on the techniques of biogas production using food waste took place at the Bee museum on the 15th of May. The session was conducted by Ms Archana Jayaraman, a representative of the South Asia Youth Environment Network (SAYEN), which focused on the different options and commercial models available today to produce biogas out […]
