Ecology & Environment

Action Research Foundation believes that one ecosystem is one planet. Humans as well as every other organism are dependent on their environment. Every living and non-living components of an ecosystem from plants to microbes to man is linked together in a complicated web. Their interdependence results in their proliferation and even on their survival. Any change in their environment, even in distant parts of the planet affects living things and their environment elsewhere. Ecosystem along with its biotic and abiotic components is an integral part of this environment.

Environment has now become a concern worldwide. The 1960 publication ‘Silent Spring’ by Rachel Carson was the milestone of this social movement for the welfare of environment. An ever-expanding population, warning level of pollution, massive land degradation, large scale deforestation and a number of other anthropogenic causes lead to an overall degradation of environment. A prime concern of Action Research Foundation is to conserve the environment we survive in.

Nature Conservation

Species diversity is the most ignored and most vulnerable among all living resources in the world. Everyday 12 species are getting extinct worldwide and we are being left with increasingly fewer wild lives for the future generation to witness!

An ever-expanding human population, rapid urbanization and industrialization, pollution and climate change leads to habitat loss, food shortage and a number of other consequences forcing the wildlife towards nonexistence. Species or habitat conservation is the immediate necessity to maintain environmental balance. Wildlife conservation has been a major focus of ARF since its inception.

Livelihoods & Natural Resource Management

Sustainable and adaptive livelihood is an approach and effort to go beyond conventional practices. A number of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are addressed through this inclusive and integrated approach of livelihood augmentation, like, ending poverty and hunger, ensuring food security and nutrition, promoting sustainable agriculture, ensuring healthy lives and combating climate change impacts. Natural and locally available resources are properly utilized to increase both availability and options of livelihood throughout the year while conserving these natural resources through enhancement of their quality and quantity.

Land, water, air and biodiversity are the most vital natural resources bestowed on Earth. Unfortunately, we continued to exhaust these resources without even thinking to restore! Today World has reached a time when mankind needs the reminder of Only One Earth which they need to care for and share. Managing natural resources have become immediate necessary so that all our future generations have enough of them.

No amount of effort can actually make natural resource management possible unless communities are engaged and there comes the role of sustainable livelihood. There are many ways of conservation of natural resources; sustainable livelihood is one of them.

Health, Awareness & Education

Communicating information to the mass or building awareness is the first step in making a world environmentally conscious. Majority of the population remains ignorant about the environmental issues, being it wildlife or climate change or a natural resource crisis. Even the health impacts are not always measured and informed. This is a challenge across society and generation. Every change and movement for a sustainable future demands capacitating people and NEWS firmly believes and works towards that.