Speaker

Suprabha Seshan

Forest Custodian and Earth Doctor

Suprabha Seshan is a long-term custodian of the Gurukula Botanical Sanctuary in Wayanad, Kerala. She is primarily concerned with rainforest conservation and community-based ecological nurturance.

She facilitates immersive educational programmes to rewild humans. She looks at conservation and restoration as a multi-dimensional relationship between plant and animal species, human beings, and the land we all inhabit. Her decades of work has involved the integration of scientific and traditional practices, understanding the complex conditions in which plants exist and relate to each other, and how human societies can exist in harmony with this diversity. Her writing has been published in Scroll, Indian Quarterly, Economic and Political Weekly, the Journal of Krishnamurti Schools, and many other publications.,Seshan received the 2006 Whitley Award, the top environmental prize in the UK, commonly known as the Green Oscars, and the Ashoka Fellowship in 2005. In 2022, she received Sanctuary Nature Foundation’s Green Teacher Award. Seshan also serves on the Steering Committee of the Ecological Restoration Alliance India.

Sessions

Day 1 - 6th October, Friday @ The Niligir Library

11:55 AM - 01:00 PM

Is Indian Conservation at a Crossroad?

As the earth feels the ever-increasing stress of human presence, forests and animal species seem under threat as never before. Extinction rates of flora and fauna are reaching irreplaceable levels. India and the Nilgiris are no exception to this trend. Eminent panelists Dr. Mahesh Rangarajan, Dr. Shankar Raman and Suprabha Seshan will be in conversation with Rohini Nilekani on the challenges and pathways forward for the conservation movement in India and the Nilgiris.