Conflict or coexistence – Dr Vidya Athreya

Vidya is an ecologist working for the last 8 years on interactions between a large cat (the leopard) and humans when they share the same space. She has been working on understanding the drivers of man-animal conflict in the backdrop of the socio-cultural ethos in India which inspires tolerance for other life forms. She talks […]

Snakes of the Nilgiris & Snakebite mitigation with Gnaneswar C.H.

A conversation with Mr. Gnaneswar, Project Coordinator, Madras Crocodile Bank on the various snakes of the Nilgiris and snakebite mitigation. The seminar was conducted in the Keystone Foundation campus on the 5th of January 2022. Mr. Gnaneswar elaborated on how easy it is to misidentify some species of snakes and how snakebite mitigation is a […]

Butterfly month 2021: Butterflies and their role in ecosystems

On 26th September 2021, Nagraj V, A Nature enthusiast, a professional photographer from Bengaluru, with four decades of experience with a special preference to butterflies in particular talked about the fascinating role of butterflies in the ecosystem. If you missed the talk, you can still catch it on our YouTube channel at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v41elPh-vuE&t=3s

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

‘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 […]

Of name and fame – Heritage walk, Kotagiri

A name can evoke a lot of memories. What are the stories that you know, of the place you are a part of? Join us on this first walking tour as we unearth the stories behind the seemingly obvious spaces and sites, right here in the heart of Kotagiri.Led by our rich treasure trove of […]

Indigenous People of Nilgiris – a talk by Reverend Phillip K Mulley

The term Indigenous refers to someone or something (living things) originating, natural, native or inherent to a particular region or country. While the term was first officially used by the United Nations in 2002, it has remained a point of debate among many owing to its multiple perspectives of reference and usage – as a […]