Manoj Kumar I B

Manoj Kumar I B is an environmentalist and conservation practitioner from Vypin, Kerala, who has spent decades working on ecological restoration and native biodiversity. A BTech graduate in Electrical and Electronics Engineering, he worked in computer hardware support before dedicating himself to conservation. Since 1997, he has created mini forests on his properties and has worked extensively on native tree propagation, seed collection, seed banking and ecosystem restoration. His initiatives include fruit forests, butterfly parks, herbal gardens, sacred groves, bamboo groves, mangrove forests and biodiversity parks. He is the founder of Rewild, a native plant nursery and farm school, and has received several environmental awards.