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Ushakumari S
FounderFounder of Thanal Trust
Ushakumari S is the founder of Thanal Trust (1986)[1], an Indian non-profit working on environment and rural & agriculture from Thiruvananthapuram.
Thanal Trust
Thanal is a Thiruvananthapuram-based research, advocacy and action group working since 1990 on organic and ecological agriculture, zero-waste initiatives, chemical safety and biodiversity conservation across Kerala. It is a separate organisation from Thanal Lakshadweep.
Thanal Trust reports the following, on its own site:
- 100,000+ farmers supported
- 30,000+ trees planted
- 950+ families empowered
- 40 years of environmental action
- Organisations
- 1
- Based in
- Thiruvananthapuram
- Founded
- 1986
- Press
- 2
References
- [1] “Under the leadership one of our founders Smt. Ushakumari S, Thanal did several studies in Periya and neighboring areas and have concluded that endosulfan causes irreversible impacts on the living environment.” — Thanal Trust. Source
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