Taking Nature to Young Audiences

Birds of India on notebook covers

With the goal to encourage children and adults to appreciate the natural world around us, Nature Communications at NCF collaborated with Navneet to highlight 12 Indian birds on the cover pages of the notebooks they publish. 

Designed for children, the books also feature information about the birds, illustrations and interactive games, on the inside page. More than 5 lakh books were available for purchase online and at stationery stores in Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Gujarat, Goa, Haryana, Jammu and Kashmir, Karnataka, Kerala, Maharashtra, Punjab, Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu, Telangana and Uttar Pradesh. 

Nature stories on StoryWeaver by Pratham Books
StoryWeaver from Pratham Books is a digital gateway to thousands of richly illustrated, open-licensed children's stories in many languages.

Our Encounter with a Snow Leopard by Lobzang Le

Birds that sing their name by P Jegan

Gyalmo, the Queen of the Mountains by Ranjini Murali

Off to See the Spiders by Vena Kapoor

Flippy the Flowerpecker by Garima Bhatia

Are You the Woodpecker? by Suhel Quader

NCF's column in the School edition of The Hindu newspaper

In 2012, we entered into an agreement with The Hindu to write a regular column in their In School edition. Over 100 articles were written by nature experts from across the country and appeared in the Schools edition (in "Earth Watch") of The Hindu between 2012-2017. Our subject was Nature, but each article approached it in a different way. Some articles were more factual, others took the form of a story, and yet others tended to be more lyrical than the rest! This initiative has now been completed.

All articles in this series are available in the Publications section below. Click on the article to view a link to the online version; some articles also have downloadable pdfs.