The Ecological Restoration Alliance invites you to its next webinar In Wilderness Lies Our Future: Rewilding Landscapes in Bangalore. Here, Dr Sudha Premnath and Ayushi Bhansali explore restoration in an urban setting, and narrate how a native plant restoration program evolved to incorporate nature education to raise awareness about native biodiversity and planting choices.
You can register on this link, or scan the QR code on the poster below.
Date: August 25, 2026
Time: 4 PM
Venue: Zoom meeting
More about the talk:
Satvan is a native plant restoration and conservation initiative of the Krishnamurti Foundation India, based at The Valley School campus in Bengaluru. Building on over 35 years of ecological restoration undertaken at the campus, Satvan maintains a seed library and plant nursery dedicated to native trees, shrubs, and other rare and lesser-known wild plants from the South Deccan Plateau Dry Deciduous and Deccan Thorn Scrub Forest ecoregions.
Increasingly, as urbanisation brings landscaping elements and ornamental plants to natural spaces, Satvan has also evolved as a nature education and awareness initiative, engaging different sections of urban citizenry with native biodiversity, ecological restoration, and more context-appropriate planting practices.
In this talk, Dr Sudha Premnath and Ayushi Bhansali share the journey of Satvan and explore what ecological restoration looks like in an urban setting.
About the Speakers:
Dr Sudha Premnath is the founder and trustee of the Kaigal Trust & the Foundation for Education, Ecology & Livelihoods. For the last 30 years, she has worked on restoration & conservation of indigenous plants, documentation of indigenous knowledge, and on education for tribal and other marginal rural populations. As a founder & coordinator of the Kaigal Education & Environment Program, she also focuses on schools, learning centres & skill training for these communities.
Ayushi Bhansali is a restoration ecologist and leads projects on Natural Resource Management & Native Plant Restoration & Conservation at Satvan, Krishnamurthi Foundation India.