Isha Home School visits ‘Bee Museum’
“If the bees disappear, we’ll all be stung.” – David Suzuki Thankfully the bees of Nilgiris don’t seem to be disappearing anytime soon. We share an ecosystem with these hard workers, and it only makes sense for us to learn about bees. Not what the textbooks will have us believe. But what experience will […]
Introduction to Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve (NBR)
SRI PRAKASH VIDYA NIKETAN from Vishakapatnam, A.P hosted Nilgiri Natural History Society (NNHS) for a talk during their recent visit to The Nilgiris. The students from Sri Prakash Vidya Niketan were introduced to the Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve by the Nature Educator of Nilgiri Natural History Society. The talk covered the landscapes, people and diverse lifeforms […]
Birdsong Beat Box
Sound Art Project to Promote Conservation Awareness The SkyIslandBeatbox project is a collaboration between musician Ben Mirin from New York, photographer PrasenjeetYadav from Bangalore, and V. V. Robin,a bird ecologist from the National Centre for Biological Sciences (NCBS) to take bird songs to a larger audience. Ben uses beatbox to create music with bird song and Prasen […]
The Nature & Environment Quiz
Being one of the biodiversity hot-spots of Southern India, the Nilgiris is home to a vast number of intriguing and beautiful ecosystems. In order to celebrate the knowledge about this biodiversity, the Nilgiri Natural History Society will host ‘The Nature & Environment Quiz’. Details are as follows- Open to 8th std children only Date- February […]
