Upcoming Events
Voices of Wetlands
About the Event
The “Voices for Wetlands” launch event is a call to decentralize environmental knowledge. While West Bengal is home to some of the world’s most significant wetlands, much of the data remains siloed or inaccessible to the communities that protect them.
This launch event marks the beginning of a new era for local conservation. Attendees will:
Discover the Platform: See a live demonstration of how to access and contribute to West Bengal’s wetland data.
Connect with Experts: Engage with conservationists and policy advisors from Asar Social Impact Advisors.
Become a Contributor: Learn how your photography, bird sightings, and field observations can directly influence environmental policy.
Why This Platform Matters
The Digital Wetland Knowledge and Community Platform serves as a community-led repository. It allows individuals on the ground—the true “voices” of the wetlands—to document biodiversity, track ecological changes, and provide the evidence needed for stronger protection laws.
Whether you are a professional researcher or a weekend bird photographer, your data has the power to protect our natural heritage.
Past Events
Srishtir Songrokkhon: A Participatory Street Art Event on Nature Conservation at Boral
Srishtir Songrokkhon was a participatory street art event, hosted at Boral, aimed at conveying pressing environmental issues via an act of direct and direct visual experience. The event had an enormous turnout of the community whose attendance and participation was well over 1,200 people.
The artist Samir Rana was the lead of the exhibition and the brains behind the concept of a public installation that simplified difficult issues such as food security, loss of biodiversity, and lack of water into a human-interested activity. This was due to the open street environment where the message was able to reach a large and diverse number of people outside the formal environmental space.
The Installation and Meaning of It.
The installation comprised of three tables each symbolizing one of the fundamental points of life:
* A bowl of rice as a representation of food and agriculture.
* A tree as the picture of plants, forests, and biodiversity.
* A pot of water representing the freshwater resources.
The tables were boxed in a transparent box. Tourists were provided with golden rolls of paper and asked to cover the clear boxes with golden paper bit by bit.
Slowly filling up the boxes by participants, the objects in them became obscured. This gesture represented that food, water, and plants are becoming scarce, as human exploitation, uncontrolled consumption, and carelessness are becoming common.
The main idea of Srishtir Songrokkhon was evident:
Nothing is worth more than food, plants and water. With the present practices, these necessities might become a luxury sometime in the future except that they are acquired by the rich, and not by nurture and inclusion.
This practical exercise made people emotionally related to the notion that the real worth of nature could not be measured on money.
Community Impact
When children, youth, and elders were involved in the participation, the exhibition was turned into a dialogue, reflection, and shared learning space. A vast majority of the visitors reported that the experience made them learn about environmental issues in a more personal and permanent manner.
Srishtir Songrokkhon proved our point that creative engagement in the streets is a potent message that creates awareness of the climate and transforms streets into places of thinking and doing something about our common future.