Butterfly month 2021: All about Butterflies!
To commemorate the big butterfly month on the 18th of September 2021 we drove to the Government Tribal Residency school in Garkiyoor, Aracode as a humble effort, to create conservation interest among the general public for the lesser-known insects that ‘rule the world’. With a group of 15 students from classes 9th and 10th, we […]
Citizen Science workshop on Invasive plant species mapping
On the 24th of April, 2021 Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment and Keystone Foundation presented a citizen group workshop hosted by The Nilgiri Natural History Society. This was a virtually conducted event on Zoom platform pertaining to the current covid 19 situations. The topic in discussion was PARTICIPATORY ASSESMENT OF THE […]
Climate Change – Extreme Weather Events over India and Impacts on Biodiversity
A rapidly warming earth is churning out severe weather events thatimpact every realm of life. This talk explores the how and why of theseweather events and discusses the impacts on the biodiversity around us. Where do these events originate and how far are the impacts felt? Speaker: Dr. Roxy Mathew Koll, Climate Scientist, IITMDate and […]
Mahua Memoirs – Film Screening
NNHS invites you to the screening of the film, ‘Mahua Memoirs’, this August, 2020 Date and Time: 28-30 August, 2020 (48 hours, 6 pm-6 pm)Film: MAHUA MEMOIRSDirector: Vinod RajaDuration: 83 minutesFilm type: Documentary (with English subtitles)Produced by Grassroots media and Equations SYNOPSISSaloo, the bard and Thirku, the Baiga, takes us on a journey through the […]
Empowering the Community
Dr. Anandi Subramanian, who recently retired as principal advisor to the MOEFCC, gave a talk at the NNHS webinar series on the programme she initiated, called the Green Skill Development Programme (GSDP) on June 20th, 2020. The talk opened with the genesis of the programme, followed by an overview of the vocational skills it covered. […]
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 […]
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 […]
