About us
Initiation : April 2019
Vision:
Connecting communities to nature through immersive outdoor experience and mentoring.
Mission:
Conserving nature through experiential immersive outdoor exposure and enhancing responsible engagement with nature.
Objectives:
•Promoting biodiversity awareness by organizing nature walks, talks and seminars,
•Mentoring volunteers to participate in biodiversity conservation among communities,
•Promoting community’s understanding to protect habitats like forest, wetlands, grasslands and micro habitats.
•Advocating means of ecosystem restoration programs like planting native trees
•Promoting habits for sustainable practices like reducing carbon foot print, water foot print to minimize environmental impact.
•Promoting recycling and reuse to reduce solid waste and pollution,
•Promoting use of renewable energy and water harvesting
What we do
•Community Engagement Programs
•Nature Walks in diverse ecosystems;
•Yamuna Nature Trails, Aravalli Nature Trails, Urban Ecology trails, Tree walks. Herping trails
•School Engagement Programs
•International Day of Action for Rivers,, World Sparrow Day, Environment Day, International Tiger day, etc.
•Participating in Bird monitoring/GBBCounts/Bird Races
•Big Butterfly Month with CEC BNHS/Butterfly Count
•Moth Week with CEC BNHS/Inaturalist
•Dragonfly festival with WWF
•Earth Walks with Asian Adventures
• Social Media Campaigns
•Celebration of Green Calendar Programs
•National Bird Day, World Wetland Day, World Lizard Day, World Wildlife Day, Global Recycling Day, Earth Day, World Bee Day, World Otter Day, World Biodiversity Day, World Turtle Day, Endemic Bird Day, World Ocean Day, World Snake Day
Our Objectives
At Amaltaswalks, we offer hands-on nature experiences and conservation efforts.
Promoting biodiversity awareness by organizing nature walks, talks and seminars,
Mentoring volunteers to participate in biodiversity conservation among communities,
Promoting community’s understanding to protect habitats like forest, wetlands, grasslands and micro habitats.
Advocating means of ecosystem restoration programs like planting native trees
Promoting habits for sustainable practices like reducing carbon foot print, water foot print to minimize environmental impact.
Promoting recycling and reuse to reduce solid waste and pollution,
Promoting use of renewable energy and water harvesting
What we do?
Over 100 collaborative events like walks, Workshops and Seminars, social Media events, Community Engagement Events have been organised to raise awareness about diverse ecosystems.
Documenting urban ecology across Delhi NCR including birds, butterflies, odonates, other insects, herps, trees and mammals.
Support from over 100 volunteers to successfully conduct all our events.
Milestones
Delhi Bird Atlas 1.0 and 2.0, a collaborative initiative aimed at documenting the city's bird species season by season, neighbourhood by neighbourhood.
Great Backyard Bird Count, in collaboration with Bird Count India which is a four day citizen science event.
Asian Waterbird Census in collaboration with Wetland International to estimate waterbird population size and trends, support wetland conservation and management planning.
National Skimmer Count in collaboration with BNHS Big Butterfly Month (Walks & Talks) to count butterfly diversity.
Global Tiger Day
Moth Count
World River Day
Save Aravali Campaign
What we have achieved ?
Nature walks in diverse ecosystems such as the Yamuna Flood Plains, the Aravali Hills, Wetlands, Grasslands, and Forests.
School & College engagement programmes; seminars and sessions across schools and colleges in Delhi on various topics such as Global Tiger Day and Big Butterfly Month.
Population and diversity monitoring programmes, such as Bird Counts, Dragonfly Count, Moth count, Herps Monitoring etc.
Celebrating Green Calendar by organising walks and talks on special occasions like Environment Day, Salim Ali Birthday etc.
How and who can join?
Students
Working Professionals
Senior Citizens
Nature Lovers
Aspiring Conservationists
