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Biodiversity Games
Games are powerful tools that help explain complex ideas like climate change and wildlife conservation while sparking curiosity and learning! Through our innovative approach, we’re spreading awareness about topics such as forests, birds, and human-animal conflict in Northeast India. Join us as we explore new ways to connect people with nature and foster a deeper love for our planet.
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About us:
This team is on a mission to make biodiversity education fun, interactive, and accessible through experiential games. Canopy collective is a group of very passionate individuals and organizations working in the northeast India. Our platform will empower a new wave of conservation leaders towards ethical nature conservation.
It has the goal of transforming the field of nature conservation by ground up partnerships at the intersection of art, science, and action. When working across disciplines/themes, we recognize that biodiversity conservation is equally a call to action that involves transdisciplinary partnerships. More importantly, with diverse groups of people, we want to intentionally hold the realities of pluralism and diversity in our work.
What we plan to achieve:
This working group in Canopy Collective envisions to popularize biodiversity games in the nature education and wildlife conservation in Northeast India. It has been seen that nature educators in the northeast often lack educational training opportunities. We aim to utilize tools to facilitate discussions about biodiversity relevant to the Northeast context. Instead of only doing a few tree and bird walks, we want to have games related to them. The biodiversity games will be place based for the northeast and carry instructions with them that will also be translated in the local languages.
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These games will also be used by conservationists, youth leaders, forest department staff, environmental and ecology students or any researcher who wants to be a Practitioner. In future, we want to build a network of facilitators in the northeast, that by using biodiversity games, can be training the trainers and teachers of nature learning.
How can you be involved?
If you have games related to biodiversity please reach out to us. If you plan to build a game related to biodiversity, conservation, nature education, climate change and human-animal conflict please reach out to us. If you are interested in volunteering with us, please write to team@canopycollective.in with the subject line- biodiversity Games. Keep a lookout for workshops that are coming up on this page in 2025!
Impact:
We hope to use and collect all the materials for the project along with additional games and build a repository for games in northeast. This in the long term is actually going to be made available for all people/ researchers working in our project sites to borrow and use.
Outcomes of the workshops include learners, learning these games and then spreading these games to their field sites. These learners are the youth leaders and young adults as well as older people. Regions of impact are Assam, Arunachal Pradesh and Nagaland.
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Upcoming workshops in January
We are holding an In-person biodiversity games workshop in the Canopy Collective office, Living Labs, Tezpur on the 21st and 22nd of January 2025. If you are interested to join, do sign up below!
Our members
Uddipana Kalita
Project Lead
Uddipana Is a wildlife biologist and conservationist by training. She has experience in nature education and managing education programs
Peeyush Sekhsaria
Architect and Nature Educator
Peeyush is a bird enthusiast who provides us with different biodiversity games. He is responsible for the games and resources for all those involved in the group
Arundhati Venkat
Design Intern
Arundhati is our design intern. She is a 3rd year, graphic design student and an avid nature and wildlife enthusiast.
Sambita Modak
Nature artist
Sambita is an ecologist who teaches nature journaling and art. She holds a PHD from the Indian Institute of Science.
Nandini Velho
Working group mentor and Project Supervisor
Nandita is the project supervisor and our working group mentor.
Manisha Kumari
Sustainability and ecological researcher
A light hearted researcher working to bridge sustainability and real world practices by integrating ecological principles and systems thinking into leadership and decision-making.