Our volunteer team has been actively involved in biodiversity surveys conducted by the Tamil Nadu Forest Department, contributing both field support and organisational expertise. In Kanniyakumari district, we have taken on a key coordinating role in facilitating these surveys, bringing together trained volunteers, nature enthusiasts, and field experts to support the Forest Department’s efforts.
Our teams regularly participate in surveys covering a range of taxa, including ephants, birds and tigers. We are also actively involved in synchronised bird surveys, and serve as one of the state-level coordinators for these surveys in Tamil Nadu. Our dedicated volunteers actively participate in wildlife monitoring programmes, including tiger and elephant population surveys.
We actively promote citizen science platforms such as iNaturalist, eBird, and Myna among nature enthusiasts, students and the general public. We regularly conduct awareness and training sessions to introduce participants to these platforms, explain how to document species effectively, and encourage them to contribute their observations to publicly accessible biodiversity databases. One of our founders is a leading contributor on iNaturalist and serves as an iNaturalist Ambassador.
Over the years, we have seen a steady increase in participation and biodiversity observations from Kanniyakumari district on these platforms since the establishment of our organisation.
When we started our organisation, there were only a handful of active bird watchers in Kanniyakumari district. Through regular birdwatching group activities, Pongal Bird Count, and bird surveys we have steadily expanded participation across the district.
From a relatively limited number of documented species, the district has
now recorded more than 420 bird species, placing Kanniyakumari in second position in Tamil Nadu in terms of recorded bird species diversity. Our volunteers and local birdwatchers have documented a number of rare and vagrant species, including several records that were reported as first records for Tamil Nadu