Describe a person you know who is working on protecting the environment
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Romulus Whitaker, The Conservationist
The famous conservationist, Romulus Whitaker has been awarded the Whitley Award for his work towards conservation of nature. The American-born, 65-year-old Indian citizen, is a reptile expert and environment film-maker and dedicated his entire life in preserving and conserving environment in Southern India. His ambition is to create a network of rainforests throughout India.
When he started work to conserve environment he only had idea of the rainforest research stations; but he didn't have the wherewithal to do anything about it. He said he would spend the award money to set up a research, conservation and education centre at Agumbe. Apart from doing the conservation of rainforests and the rare species of animals and plants, the mission of this research center is to educate hundreds about school children about the forest.
This great but humble conservationist has many feathers in his cap. He is a writer, documentary film maker for Discovery and National Geographic Channels, founder of Chennai Snake Park, etc. The world needs more dedicated and self-effacing conservationists like him to fight the environmental issues globally.
There are many persons across the country who is intensively pouring their contribution in conserving the environment. Piyush Manush is one among them who made immense contribution to save nature and environment and made some unimaginable sacrifices in order to save the environment.
Piyush Manush, Tamil Nadu based environmental activist who is well popular for his act of condemning the Government of Tamil Nadu for its eight lane road project between Salem to Chennai which requires a vast area of agricultural and forest areas to be destroyed. On behalf of his frequent revolts and public awareness activities against the eight lane project Manush got arrested and charged with Non-bailable charges along with his two other activists. According to many reports there were many alleged tortures and solitary confinements were made to Manush when he was kept behind the bars. These are such sad news to get heard about an environmentalist who is hard working for justice.
Piyush Manush, the founder of Salem Citizen’s Forum is an urban environmentalist is also well known for his action of adopting a many lakes around Salem district of Tamil Nadu in order to conserve them from pollution. Simply, Piyush Manush can be termed as a single person against a whole government.