Conservation
Education

The battle for conservation will not be fought, and won, through legal adjudication or in the corridors of power. It will be won in the minds of our children who are the decision makers of tomorrow. Creating a civil society that is well informed of concerns and challenges related to conservation of natural world is critical to the success of all conservation efforts.

AFE's Conservation Education Division seeks to strengthen the links between conservation initiatives and formal school education
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World
Without Walls

AFE's World Without Walls is dedicated to developing a spirit of custo-dianship for natural eco-systems amongst the GenNEXT.

It seeks to achieve its mandate through structured opportunties to grandeur of natural landscapes and conservation challenges that lie with in.

Since year 2002, more than 2000 young children have restablished their connect with the natural world by being a part of the World Without Walls. Nature created a world
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Center for Urban
Green Spaces

Cities now account for more than 50% of global population making cities far more significant as focal points of environmental action and advicacy than they were a few decades ago.

Urban green spaces play a fundamentally important role in improving the environmental quality, energy efficiency and aesthetic appeal of urban landscapes apart from being important repositiries of flora and fauna. Indian subcontinent is also in the middle of unprecedented rate and levels of urbanisation.
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Promoting Cool Roofs for a cooler Planet Earth
AFE has collaborated with Government of NCT Delhi to create awareness about and promote adaptation of COOL ROOFS as a strategy to reduce the carbon footprint of Delhi. White surface of roofs of buildings reflect incoming solar radiation thereby reducing the ambient temperature inside the ....more
Nurturing future leadership for conservation of nature  
Aravali Foundation for Education, Centre for Forest and Natural Resource Management Study (CEFNARM), Hyderabad and Arid Forest Research Institute (AFRI) have joined hands to conduct the 7th Vacation Program on Natural Resources (VPNR-2011) at Hyderabad and Jodhpur respectively...more
Baseline study on Urban Green Spaces
Urban forestry is neither a recognized discipline in India, nor the country has a national policy on how the forests and other green spaces in urban areas are to be managed. As a result urban forestry in evolved in each city in a very unique manner, acquiring independent dimensions in the process as....more
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Centre for Urban Green Spaces