WildRoots India started a Batwatch youth program to create opportunities for school students to observe bats and generate awareness about their ecological importance such as their crucial role in pollination and the dispersal of seeds.
Pratyaee Bhattacharyya, a geography student of Shri Shikshayatan College, was just a child when she visited the Khairbari Leopard Rescue Center and fell in love with nature, forests and leopards. She is now involved as a Student Member with WildRoots in their Citizen Science Programme.
Ace veteran artist Krishna De from Kolkata, India, is an alumnus of the Government College of Art & Craft in India. She has been recognized by various nature and conservation organizations like WildRoots as a “Nature Artist who inspires young people to identify themselves with Nature and the Wilderness”.