In the Anthropocene, nothing is permanent – countless forms of life are facing extinction before being discovered or studied, climate crisis-induced events are changing unpredictably, and so are impacts on people. The Climate Change programme seeks to raise awareness, innovate nature-based, bottom-up solutions and study local ecosystem changes at the grassroots level, focusing on the perspectives of indigenous people and local communities (IPLC) in the Nilgiris and beyond.
We aim to promote a deeper understanding of the climate crisis at the local level, involving communities in practical learning and climate action, training women in rural areas to document and study changes in their neighbouring ecosystems.