The Ecological Restoration Alliance invites you to its next webinar: Achieving Restoration via Biodiversity Management Committees. Here, ERA community member Shyamkumar P will present a model of ecological restoration executed via a panchayat Biodiversity Management Committee in Kerala.
You can register on this link, or by scanning the QR code on the poster below.
Date: March 25, 2026
Time: 4 pm onwards
Venue: Zoom Meeting
About the Talk:
With resource scarcity and competition often impeding restoration projects, what alternatives lie beyond private-sector funded restoration models? Do India’s Biological Diversity Act and its Biodiversity Management Committees (BMCs) offer us a clue? Can these enable existing government machinery and ordinary citizens to come together to restore degraded ecosystems?
In this talk, naturalist Shyamkumar P will narrate how he utilised the Pullur Periya BMC to restore a section of the Chithari river in Kasargod, Kerala, with funds from the State’s Biodiversity Board. Shyamkumar will also highlight the structure and workings of a BMC and underscore why Kerala has been so successful in supporting and governing these committees.
About the Speaker:
Shyamkumar P is an architect and a naturalist. He is a part of the Biodiversity Management Committee of the Kasaragod District Panchayat in Kerala, and the convener of the Pullur Periya BMC.
See you on the call.