DOCUMENTARIES
Project Mangrove
A two-and-a-half-year long shoot, Project Mangrove is one of the biggest projects we have undertaken till date. Bombay Natural History Society, the Asian subcontinent’s oldest environment conservation NGO, has taken up a gigantic task — the re-plantation of mangroves in Gujarat. More that 3,00,000 saplings have already been planted and several more saplings will be planted by. BNHS also conducts Mangrove Awareness Programmes in schools and involves the locals in the conservation of the Maharashtra and Gujarat coastline.
Biroba Films has been documenting the entire project right from the start. We have captured the process of plantation, the sapling’s gradual growth, and its effectiveness. This visual database can be used constructively in further research programmes.
We are also developing conservation awareness films aimed at helping children and locals understand the importance of the mangroves in their state.
Project Coral Reef
The Lakshadweep Islands in the Indian Ocean are one of the richest coral biodiversity hotspots, second only to the Andaman and Nicobar Islands.
For more than a decade, BNHS’s Marine Biodiversity Conservation and Research Centre in Lakshadweep has undertaken several projects here. Various research projects in biodiversity have successfully found out ways and means by which the BNHS can work with the locals and create India’s first community managed marine protected area. Biroba Films stepped in to make a film on the Community Awareness Programmes that BNHS carried out in Agatti Islands, Lakshadweep.
This film aims to inspire other locals on the Island to create more marine protected areas. Soon, a network of protected areas in Lakshadweep can be created. Biroba Films is currently working on a film about Coral Reef Biodiversity and the Climate Change issues related to it.
Marine turtle
A script for a film on India’s marine turtles is currently being created by our team.
