National Geographic to showcase 10 environmental changemakers from throughout India

By IANS

MUMBAI: The National Geographic on Tuesday introduced to showcase a collection of brief movies, spotlighting 10 people from throughout India, who’re taking important steps in direction of planet conservation and restoration ranging from Earth Day, April 22.

Termed an “impact-driven” marketing campaign, the ‘One For Change’ collection of brief movies, was launched by Dia Mirza, actor and UN Environment’s Goodwill Ambassador for India, and Kevin Vaz, head, Network Entertainment Disney Star, together with a number of the changemakers.

Earth Day 2022 is widely known on April 22 yearly. This 12 months’s theme is ‘Invest In Our Planet’.

The 10 changemakers chosen to be featured are: Bengaluru’s Vani Murthy, widespread as worm queen of India, often known as the composting crusader of the nation; Purnima Burman Devi, the chief of the Hargila Army, working in direction of the safety of endangered Greater Adjutant Stork in Assam; Tejas Sidnal, founding father of Carbon Craft Design, capturing carbon air pollution and changing it into carbon tiles; Venkatesh Charloo, pioneering marine conservationist who helps in coral restoration in Goa; Delhi’s Vidyut Mohan, a 2020 UNEP international changemaker & founding father of Takachar that’s changing waste farm residue into activated carbon; Varsha Raikwar, a younger local weather change radio reporter from Bundelkhand, who increase consciousness round surroundings and cleanliness and local weather change for rural areas.

Besides, Rukmani Katara, CEO of Durga Energy that’s igniting a renewable vitality revolution in rural India in Rajasthan; Poonam & Aditya Singh, a pair who’re rewilding the personal land on the outskirts of the Ranthambhore Tiger Reserve; Thulasi Gowda, the 83-year-old identified for being an outdated dwelling encyclopedia of the bushes and herbs of north Karnataka and Sonam Wangchuk, engineer and innovator, who’s the founding director of the Student’s Educational and Cultural Movement of Ladakh (SECMOL)have additionally been chosen.

During interplay with the changemakers, Mirza mentioned: “1.3 billion people. Imagine, if each one of us took at least one action, imagine the kind of difference we would make. All you need is one resolute mind”.

“If we can actually make people think that if these individuals can do, we can do too, I think our job is done,” Vaz mentioned.

He additionally mentioned that NatGeo plans to function 30 such individuals over the 12 months however beginning with these 10 on Earth Day.