Keystone’s collaboration with the Western Ghats Portal
A post from the CEPF Blog is reproduced here with permission. The original post is found here. Collaboration and Conservation: Experiences of the Western Ghats Portal April 26, 2013 Building an open and collaborative information system for biodiversity and ecosystem services in India India’s biodiversity has been explored and documented for centuries, but information on Read more »
Cornell Biodiversity Program in India to Launch in 2014
Starting in Spring 2014, students will be able to travel to the Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve in Southern India for the semester to learn about biodiversity conservation, sustainable environments and livelihoods. The full article is available in one of the oldest campus newspapers at Cornell – The Cornell Daily Sun
Nilgiris Field Learning Centre
Cornell University and the Keystone Foundation, India, are developing a Field Learning Center in the Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve of the Western Ghats. The partnership is an interdisciplinary, collaborative effort that explores questions of sustainable environments and livelihoods. Read more about it at http://blogs.cornell.edu/nflc/
Toda Embroidery gets Geographical Indicator
The Toda community finally gets a GI (Geographical Indicator) tag for its embroidery. It has been a 5 year struggle to get it through but now its done. http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-tamilnadu/toda-embroidery-gets-gi-status/article4556982.ece
Biodiversity Business from India to Peru
Sam was involved in a study, commissioned by Hivos, which provides new insights in the impacts and success factors of the upcoming concept of biodiversity-friendly enterprise across the globe. By means of a case study of 30 biodiversity businesses, the report aims to inform and inspire a broad audience about the promising pro-biodiversity market in Read more »
Radio Kotagiri, our Community Radio goes Live!
Today at around 5 PM, the first community radio station in the Nilgiris, Radio Kotagiri, went on air. The station was inaugurated by Ms. Supriya Sahu, IAS, Joint Secretary, Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, GoI and former Collector of the Nilgiris district. Nearly one hundred and fifty people came to the Keystone campus for the Read more »
Board of Trustees
The Board of Keystone were here for a few days, alongside the Cornell team. They stayed on, visiting Nilambur, one of the field centers – a great way to begin the year.
Cornell University – building partnerships
Its been a long time coming. Ever since his stint at the Rockefeller Bellagio center in 2009, Pratim had been building his idea of a Field Learning Centre. His 10 months as a Hubert Humphrey fellow at Cornell, helped him to take the idea forward. The visit of the Cornell team was to take place Read more »
Something for everyone at the SCB Asia
Archana, Bala, Senthil, Vinod and Anita were at Bangalore from the 7th to the 11th of August, 2012 for the Society for Conservation Biology-Asia chapter meeting. Keystone Foundation was happy to be one of the supporters of the conference. The conference had its share of the good, bad and ugly papers! The plenary talks were Read more »
Support for Seemai Suddhi
It came as a pleasant surprise when we received a grant support for Nilgiri Seemai Sudhi. Our wholehearted thanks to Nilgiri Adivasi Trust, this has given us a big boost to continue with our campaigns through the newspaper. I wish more people will come forward to donate money to Nilgiri Seemai Sudhi which is creating Read more »
