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The Agra-based Indian School of Nature (ISN), an instauration engaged successful acquisition and probe successful clime action, sustainable tourism, and environment-compatible agriculture, has won the Climate Guardian Award 2025 astatine the Tour Operators for Tigers (TOFT) Wildlife and Nature Tourism Awards.
The grant was conferred connected Friday (December 12, 2025) successful New Delhi connected the Uttar Pradesh-based organisation, which was acceptable up successful 2023 and operates from its field astatine Mela Kothi successful Jarar village, Agra, successful the Chambal region. The organisation works connected integrating clime accountability into nature-based tourism successful India.
Tour Operators for Tigers (TOFT) is simply a South Asia-based confederation of circuit operators, lodges, conservation organisations, and specialists. Its enactment is grounded successful the world that crossed the Indian subcontinent, efforts to sphere tigers, nationalist parks, and wildlife often vie with the contiguous livelihood needs of agrarian communities.
“We astatine ISN consciousness that India with its divers quality and biodiversity tin look arsenic a planetary Sustainable Tourism destination and we are committed to beryllium portion of this transformation. Our technological attack towards quantifying sustainability has got planetary designation and the TOFT grant is simply a milestone successful this journey,” said Ram Pratap Singh, Founder, Indian School of Nature.
Mr. Singh added, “ISN is besides collaborating with SUMAS - Sustainability Management School, Geneva - to make impact-oriented cognition modules for the stakeholders of the tourism worth concatenation who tin past enactment towards planetary sustainability compliances mandated by Glasgow convention, EU guidelines, and COP 28.”
The TOFT Wildlife and Nature Tourism Awards honour individuals and organisations demonstrating noteworthy interaction successful wildlife conservation, clime action, and section assemblage empowerment.
Indian School of Nature besides acts arsenic an open-source cognition level offering skilling courses, tools, and task enactment to assistance stakeholders plan and instrumentality low-carbon, socially inclusive projects crossed aggregate sectors. In summation to its existent verticals, it is processing aboriginal cognition products connected discarded management, clime entrepreneurship, clime financing, municipality sustainability, and vigor transition.
