A National-Level Organization of repute, Nature Care Initiative (NCI) aims to usher in a world that is symbiotically connected with Mother Nature. NCI has been working tirelessly to conserve, protect and restore biological systems, wildlife habitats, marine life, forest, land, wetland mangroves, and the environment at large, including water resources, costal ecosystems and climate balance.
As a forerunner of socio-environmental action group with pan India existence, NCI is keenly responsive to environmental changes. From its inception in 2014, the organization has been committed to work on diverse parameters to achieve a healthier environmental equilibrium in the world as a whole. On the successful completion of the first eventful decade, we, at NCI, still feel there is a stronger need to develop proper infrastructure and resources to suitably address the demands of the big-scale activities needed to realize a healthier environmental equilibrium.
In order to ensure proper protection of wild elephants, particularly, to reduce untimely elephant deaths due to fatal train hits, electrocution, poaching & poisoning and for securing their natural habitat & corridors, NCI has been at the forefront of creating awareness in coordination with the concerned authorities. Integral to this effort, in 2013, the President of Nature Care Initiative had approached the Supreme Court of India through a Writ Petition (C) 107/2013 to reduce elephant mortality due to train hits. Consequently, the Hon’ble court had issued a detailed order on how to reduce wild jumbo deaths on rail tracks and secure wildlife.
At present, water pollution is a challenge for the society. Efforts and schemes of the Government like Swachh Bharat Aviyaan, Namami Gange and Water treatment plants for urban & industrial areas has been helping to reduce water pollution. In this regard, NCI has formed Social Responsibility Teams (SRTs) involving local people, environmentalists, nature conservationist, media and legal professionals to create and spread awareness on the harmful effects of water pollution. To execute this, the SRTs are encouraged to be laser-focused on identifying the causes of water pollution and finding innovative ways to mitigate the nagging problem.
To educate and make the general public well aware of the importance of trees to sustain Nature & life on Earth and further motivate them for planting trees, NCI has been taking it on mission mode to try and enable every person to plant at least one tree in their life and protect it like their child. Our volunteers, in association with the local people, have already planted more than 50 thousand tress across the country. Over the last three years, we have pro-actively carried out plantation drives in the states of Odisha, Punjab, Uttar Pradesh, Gujurat, Jharkhand and West Bengal.
Like its global peers, in recent years, India has also become increasingly vulnerable to the adverse impacts of climate change. Climate change has been adversely affecting agriculture, food security, and giving rise to environmental problems like rise in sea-levels and the accelerated erosion of coastal areas, increasing intensity of natural disasters, extinction of species and the spread of vector-borne diseases. In this regard, NCI has been organizing Climate Resilience events, observing the World Environment Day, World Nature Conservation Day, Earth Day, World Soil Day, World Water Day, etc., to encourage wider citizen involvement to curb climate change challenges across the country.
