Awaken the Self
Return to the Forest
Becoming Earth Foundation partners with forest-edge communities and people like you to co-create coexistence spaces across human–wildlife
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Field updates + fund-use reports
245
million people
Depend on river systems connected to the Western Ghats.
35,500+
Sudden encounter incidents
Were recorded in Karnataka in 2024–25.
22,000 incidents
with elephants
According to a June 2026 report, Karnataka.
An Immersive Project That Can Change the Way You See Nature, Self, and Community
Project P.E.A.C.E.
Co-creating coexistence spaces with forest-edge communities across human–elephant interaction landscapes.
Non-Zero Learning Space
A place-based ecological learning space where learners explore , learn and experiment through nature, community, creativity, travel and lived experience.
Place-Based Exposure Journey
An immersive learning journey where participants explore ecology, economy, community, self, and forest through direct experience.
Forest Festival
An immersive gathering where youth, communities, artists, educators, and practitioners learn with the forest, not just about it.
Small actions. Everyday places.
Round Off for Forests
If you pay ₹199 for Netflix, Prime, or a recharge, round it off for the forest.
Everyday payments already happen.
We are asking you to add just ₹1
Certified Climate supporter
Turn your shop, café, business, or workplace into a Climate Action Hub.
Do you run a shop, business, café, service, office, or manufacturing unit?
You can contribute ₹1 from every bill, sale, product, or profit cycle toward community-led conservation and climate education.
In return, your business receives:
Climate Hub Badge
Certificate of Participation
Monthly Impact Report
Recognition as a climate partner for events
Climate Education Fund
This fund supports place-based ecological learning for children and young people through nature walks, forest learning, storytelling, local knowledge, creative activities, community sessions, and learning materials.
Your support helps children understand:
Forests, Rivers, Soil, Wildlife, Food systems
Community knowledge, Human–wildlife coexistence
Their own relationship with nature
Our First Commune Village
Help us build a living village for ecology, learning, and coexistence.
We are building our first community-rooted learning and action space — a place where children, youth, farmers, artists, educators, conservationists, and local communities can come together.
One gift, branching out like a watershed.
Resources here move like water through a forest from a single gift out into ecosystems, projects, and the people, children, and wildlife on the ground.
How Becoming Earth Works
Becoming Earth Foundation is built as a decentralized ecosystem
Implementation
Our direct ecological action system where conservation, restoration, coexistence work, field projects, community action, and Place based ground-level ecological interventions come alive.
Non-Zero
Our knowledge and learning system -growing research, ecological education, local knowledge, curriculum, documentation, and place-based learning
Circula
Our resource system - moving funds, materials, assets, grants, and partnerships transparently into the work.
Project Kenjiga
Where Becoming Earth works on its own inner ecology
Project Kenjiga is our internal exploration space for people, culture, structure, learning, wellbeing, and shared leadership.
It helps us collectively ask what work can become when it goes beyond only productivity into care, responsibility, reflection, conflict, freedom, and aliveness.
Inspired by the red ant, Kenjiga is about building an organisation that is collective, alert, deeply connected, and not dependent on one centre of power.
Because Becoming Earth cannot build coexistence outside if we do not practice it inside.
The reality of conservation funding
The people who keep the forest alive almost never touch the money. We were built to break that pattern.
80%
80% of every ₹100 goes directly into ground programme
< 1%
of international climate & conservation funding reaches local communities directly.
80%
of the world's biodiversity sits in territories cared for by local communities.