Jayant Sarnaik

Founder

Founder of Applied Environmental Research Foundation (AERF)

Jayant Sarnaik is the founder of Applied Environmental Research Foundation (AERF)[1], an Indian non-profit working on environment and rural & agriculture from Pune.

Applied Environmental Research Foundation (AERF)

AERF works on sacred-grove conservation, mangrove restoration and applied biodiversity research across the Northern Western Ghats, coastal Maharashtra and central India, partnering with indigenous and forest-dependent communities on nature-based livelihoods and green entrepreneurship.

Applied Environmental Research Foundation (AERF) reports the following, on its own site:

13,000 acres of threatened privately owned terrestrial forests brought under conservation agreements
1,791 acres of privately owned mangroves under long-term conservation management
9,950+ eco-chullahs distributed among forest-dependent communities
25,000+ forest-dependent people empowered through conservation interventions