Restore Earth: A World Environment Day Special

A World Environment Day Special

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IST 04:30 PM

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World Environment Day is celebrated annually on 5 June and encourages awareness and action for the protection of the environment.

In this World Environment Day special event, join our member Ramesh Venkataram, who will be talking about our ecology: why it is important, why our ecology is getting degraded, and how restoration can help. Ramesh has been an ecological restoration practitioner since 2008 and he is the first Indian to become a Certified Ecological Restoration Practitioner.

In 2007 Ramesh started Junglescapes, an NGO for ecological restoration. They have been restoring degraded forest habitats in and around Bandipur Tiger Reserve in Karnataka since 2008.

Learn from our in-house expert the difference between tree planting and ecological restoration, as well as a case get a glimpse into the study of his project in Bandipur Tiger Reserve.
At the end of this session, we will discuss how Silver Talkies Club members can participate in restoration as volunteers, ambassadors, and more.

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Ramesh Venkataraman

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Ramesh is a Chartered Accountant and was in a corporate career for 24 years before he took voluntary retirement at the age of 48 to pursue his passion for wildlife conservation. Apart from running his NGO Junglescapes, he is also a Director on the Board of the Society for Ecological Restoration. In his spare time he likes to listen to music, exercise and read.