Malti didn’t join Earth Focus looking for a career. She came from a village on the edge of the Kanha Tiger Reserve, where fields thin into imposing sal trees and the road transitions abruptly into a forest trail. Her family cultivated a small patch of land and gathered what the forest allowed: mahua in spring, […]

How Earth Focus uses drones, digital tracking, and local stewardship to restore land and secure livelihoods in Kanha Tiger Reserve’s buffer zone

“I have fallen completely in love with Kanha. Ab toh mujhe baahar hi nahi aana,” Shikha says. She isn’t quite speaking; she is almost singing, as though the forest itself taught her the rhythm Shikha comes from Haryana’s Hisar Jat community, a family of teachers from the agrarian plains. She was the first girl from […]