Partly inspired by the Nature Conservancy in the United States, former banker Dr.

Anil Malhotra and his wife Pamela Gale Malhotra have bought tracts of abandoned agricultural land in the Western Ghats and allowed them to flourish as the bio-diverse rainforests they actually are. Now they're appealing to wealthy Indians to buy up as much land as they can near these bio-diverse hotspots, to restore them to forests and prevent an oncoming fresh-water crisis. (more…)