Unravelling cats

The very nature of cats makes them difficult to study. So how does one study them? In this webinar, we will discuss the various methods that are used to study cats which are not very different from the stuff that detectives do. What do we know about cats from these studies and how is it […]

Are all cats gray in the dark?

“A Cat’s a Cat” so said T.S. Eliot and we all know that a tiger is but a large cat. How many other cats are there and what are their similarities and differences? Why is India so rich in cats and from where and how did the very loved and very hated domestic cat come […]

Through a youngster’s eyes

For all young budding artists or someone with a passion to express themselves through art, here’s your opportunity. This August, all month long we open this up for the Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve.PS: kindly read guidelines (in the poster attached) for further details.

Art with Bees

In these times of lockdown, staying home need not be boring! Not when there’s so much to explore, right in our backyards (or yard on any side, as the case may be!). Explore your surroundings and get creative with this ‘make me a bee’ fun event. Details in the poster attached below Where: From the […]

Atop the Nilgiris plateau – from down under

An interest expressed and explored, soon turned into a one-day Nilgiris socio-cultural cum ecological experience that NNHS facilitated for Dakshin Endeavours, for their student group who were visiting India, from Australia for an experiential visit to India. The day long event that ran on February 11, 2020, took the students on a toda ethno-cultural experience […]

Seasonwatch is here, in the Nilgiris!

NNHS along with Keystone kicked off a Seasonwatch workshop, the first of its kind, to bring Seasonwatch to the Nilgiris. The day long workshop was held in the Keystone campus on 9th March, 2020. Our participants were a mixed group of 9 – 3 teachers from a school and a college in Kotagiri and 6 […]

The School, Chennai – field learning @ Sathy

The School, Chennai, has been a regular to the Nilgiris, bringing their students out for field work and immersion in the various Keystone run community, livelihood and wildlife activities in the region. In 2019, the school came to work with us with 33 XIth std students accompanied by 6 teachers. After some back and forth […]

In search of liquid gold – Semmanarai

Our story of bees and humans is an age old one, and unfolds right here at Semmanarai, a little hamlet some distance away from Kotagiri. Join us on this unique tour to the beautiful landscape to the abode of the bees – a leisurely walking exploration of bees, flowers, streams and farms, as we take […]

Anweshana Keystone visit

Anweshana Montessori School from Bengaluru, landed up in Kotagiri on a rainy November morning on 27th November, for a Keystone campus tour. While we had initially planned a village and community visit for them, that had to be cancelled as the heavens opened up on us. So the students assembled for a short screening of […]

‘Nature and People’ winter film festival

To quote Isak Dinesen from ‘Out of Africa’, “to be a person is to have a story to tell”. And that is what we strove to bring to the Nilgiris, in this first film festival on the theme of ‘Nature and People’ – stories of people and their lands, from across the Indian peninsula; from […]