Prof. Uma Ramakrishnan (NCBS) speaks with Srinivas Vaidyanathan (FERAL), Dr. Nishant Srinivasiah and Anisha Jayadevan (Frontier Elephants Programme) on their ‘Elephants on the Zebra Crossing’ project from the BSF Small Grants Programme to understand the vision behind the project, their learnings and experiences, challenges and the way ahead. With the first round of Small Grants almost at an end, this is part of BSF’s attempt to reflect on the projects and Small Grants Programme in general.

For a City like Bengaluru to be water resilient there is a dire need to save our Lakes. Community, Collaboration and Conservation are the three c’s to focus on when it comes to revival of urban lakes. Conservation becomes possible when Communities around the lake come together to Collaborate with the stakeholders to work towards saving the lake.

This is the first story from the ‘Stories of Resilience’ project by Quicksand and Bharat Mirle. In this video story, they look at how cattle rearers on the outskirts of Bangalore are coping with city and industrial waste being pushed out to the Byramangala reservoir.