Dr. Sunipa Sinha Roy

Uttarayan Wildlife

A West Bengal organisation more than three decades old that restores fragmented ecosystems across South Bengal, drawing on its parent nursery network Pallisree. Current partnerships include growing elephant-fodder plantations with WWF West Bengal for northern elephant corridors and building a model village at Songaon in the Sundarbans, where restoration work employs over 1,500 local women.

Uttarayan Wildlife reports the following, on its own site:

• 14 villages
• 2800 locals involved
• 1250 local farmers are stakeholders
• 1580 women are employed