A financial literacy workshop in Kanha began with budgeting and savings. It soon became a conversation about family, responsibility, aspirations, and who gets included in financial conversations.
In the buffer zone of the Kanha Tiger Reserve, 907 mothers from 39 Mata Samitis (Mothers’ Committees) have transformed informal discussions into organised community action — repairing classrooms, improving school attendance, and pushing local authorities to deliver change.
A biodiversity programme in the buffer zone of Kanha Tiger Reserve is finding that when teaching starts from what families already know, ecological learning, cultural practice and community participation strengthen one another.
What began as a conversation about a leaking classroom in Madhya Pradesh became a catalyst for a wider process that has, over time, brought together over 1,000 mothers across 39 Mothers’ Committees – reshaping schools, homes and futures in the buffer zone of the Kanha Tiger Reserve.
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 […]
A flash of orange, a startled deer, a growl, then teeth and blood—the tiger’s presence is abrupt and dramatic—a cinematic burst of danger: It is typically encountered from a safe distance, framed in safari literature as a spectacle, on warning signs as a threat, and in news headlines as an object of fear. The prevailing […]
Edited by Prof. Ruth DeFries (NCCI) Earth Focus recently hosted the second Millet-focused roundtable, organized by the Network for Conserving Central India (NCCI), over 16th and 17th January 2024. The roundtable brought together people from several civil society organizations, farmer producer organizations, women self-help groups and other stakeholders to address challenges for advancing the millet […]
Conversations with entomologist and education intern, Shikha Nain Kanha wears the monsoon beautifully. Everything seems to shimmer here – the stars, the fireflies, the mica-infused dirt. Shikha and I notice this as we walk across campus late in the evening. She is pulling me aside one second to save me from a black scorpion, stopping […]
