This oral history file records the life history of veteran Indian conservationist, Dr. M.K. Ranjitsinh. Conducted in a conversational format, the interviews trace the evolution of India's conservation policies, key wildlife legislations, and the role of princely states and scientific leadership in shaping protected areas. The discussions also touch on species recovery efforts, institutional challenges, and reflections on the changing landscape of wildlife governance.

This oral history documents the life of Lalji Desai, a Rabari pastoralist and environmental activist from Gujarat, detailing his childhood, involvement in water conservation, and decades of activism across land, forests, rivers, and grasslands. It preserves rare insights into the challenges faced by pastoral communities and grassroots leadership, highlighting their knowledge, resistance, and vision for ecological justice in India's semi-arid landscapes.

This is a 37-page mid-term internal evaluation report titled "Empowerment of Women's Groups via Eco-Restoration of Northern Kutch". This was prepared by Janvikas Ecology Cell of Bhuj, Kutch. This is an output of a collaborative project between Swiss Development Cooperation, Janvikas, Kutch Mahila Vikas Sangathan (KMVS) and Sahjeevan. The project duration was from June 1991 to 1999. This report documents the technologies developed and implemented under four heads - Water harvesting, Soil water conservation, Biomass and Ferrocement technologies.

This is a 68-page report titled "Empowerment of Women's Groups via Eco-Restoration of Northern Kutch" in the same project as the above. This report covers the progress under the project's Main Phase from April 1996 to March 1999. This report highlights the expansion of the programme from the initial six mandated villages to several villages of Pachchham and Nakhatrana, the standardisation of some systems based on the experiences from the pilot phase and the opening of Janvikas Ecology Cell as a district support and network agency.

This report titled "Eco-restoration with marginalized communities in Kutch through a gender perspective" created by Sahjeevan for submission to the Swiss Agency for Development and Co-operation. This proposal is for the continuation or Phase 4 of the project initiated by Janvikas and KMVS in 1991. The proposal starts with results achieved so far and proposes objectives to be carried out in Phase 4 in Pachcham, Nakhatrana, Mundra and Abdasa through the formation of Sangathans.

This is a 130-page draft Indicative Plan Report created by Center for Envrionment and Social Concerns (CESC), Ahmedabad, under the Biodiversity Conservation and Rural Livelihood Improvement Project (BCRLIP) for Little Rann of Kutch. The report details landscape configuration, maps, biological assessment, socio-economic assessment, institutional assessment, policy and legal assessment, threat assessment, project design and log frame along with annexures containing a list and reports of consultations, meetings, list of flora and fauna and demographic and landuse statistics of villages.

This collection contains eight issues of Press Clippings, a fortnightly internal newsletter produced by the Foundation for Ecological Security (FES), a Gujarat-based NGO. Each issue compiles selected newspaper articles organized under themes such as wildlife, water, forests, development, institutions, gender, and agriculture. Created for internal circulation, the newsletters served as a tool to monitor public discourse, policy developments, and media representation of ecological and social issues. Their archival value lies in documenting how environmental concerns were framed in contemporary print media and in illustrating the role of civil society organizations in systematically curating information to support ecological security and grassroots advocacy.

Provides a curated selection of newspaper articles on environmental and development issues, organized under themes such as forests, water, wildlife, agriculture, institutions, and gender. Compiled for internal circulation by the Foundation for Ecological Security to track public discourse, policy developments, and media representation of ecological and social concerns.

Provides a curated selection of newspaper articles on environmental and development issues, organized under themes such as forests, water, wildlife, agriculture, institutions, and gender. Compiled for internal circulation by the Foundation for Ecological Security to track public discourse, policy developments, and media representation of ecological and social concerns.

Provides a curated selection of newspaper articles on environmental and development issues, organized under themes such as forests, water, wildlife, agriculture, institutions, and gender. Compiled for internal circulation by the Foundation for Ecological Security to track public discourse, policy developments, and media representation of ecological and social concerns.

Provides a curated selection of newspaper articles on environmental and development issues, organized under themes such as forests, water, wildlife, agriculture, institutions, and gender. Compiled for internal circulation by the Foundation for Ecological Security to track public discourse, policy developments, and media representation of ecological and social concerns.

Provides a curated selection of newspaper articles on environmental and development issues, organized under themes such as forests, water, wildlife, agriculture, institutions, and gender. Compiled for internal circulation by the Foundation for Ecological Security to track public discourse, policy developments, and media representation of ecological and social concerns.

Provides a curated selection of newspaper articles on environmental and development issues, organized under themes such as forests, water, wildlife, agriculture, institutions, and gender. Compiled for internal circulation by the Foundation for Ecological Security to track public discourse, policy developments, and media representation of ecological and social concerns.

Provides a curated selection of newspaper articles on environmental and development issues, organized under themes such as forests, water, wildlife, agriculture, institutions, and gender. Compiled for internal circulation by the Foundation for Ecological Security to track public discourse, policy developments, and media representation of ecological and social concerns.

This photographic album documents the 2000 watershed development programme in Khari and Tal villages of Kutch and dam works in Uthhangadi. Systematically coded by themes, from office set-up and implementation to collaborations, community participation, and outcomes, it captures consultations with pastoral communities, collective labour, and the use of dromedaries in construction. The album provides visual evidence of participatory watershed management, with loose related photographs clipped inside. It serves as evidence of development processes rarely recorded in official reports, preserving the perspective of local communities and field practitioners in contrast to purely technical or policy-driven records.

This photographic collection documents the implementation of fodder security work in Kutch, centred on Khari village. The images portray pastoral animal breeds historically sustained within rainfed farming systems, illustrating the interdependence of livestock and agriculture in semi-arid landscapes. Viewed through an agro-pastoral lens, the collection captures project interventions and community strategies for securing fodder resources, strengthening resilience, and sustaining livelihoods in dry and arid regions.

A 11-page progress report detailing Sahjeevan's work in the Powerpatti cluster and Nakhatrana. It documents the establishment of Milk Producers Institutions, grassland mapping initiatives, creation of a fodder bank, and the setting up of an Animal Husbandry Knowledge Centre, highlighting interventions to strengthen pastoral livelihoods and local resource management.