This is the day 2 of NATIONAL WEBINAR SERIES, CELEBRATION OF World Environment Day - 2021. June 6th 2021
The second focused on Ecological Restoration models and interaction with a local community person from Chhattisgarh

Lukasz Luczaj is an ethnobotanist who has spent his life travelling around the world documenting foraging practices, e.g. in Poland, Croatia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Romania, Georgia, China and Laos. Lukasz is an associate professor at the University of Rzeszow, Poland. In 2018 he was invited to the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, to deliver the annual Distinguished Ethnobotanist lecture about his research on foraging. He has published nearly a hundred ethnobotanical articles and is also the author of a few books. He runs a foraging school in the Polish Carpathians. He also ‘travels in time’ by looking at the history of foraging – reaching for unknown descriptions of nineteenth-century rural life in Europe. In this talk he will talk about his research and his life as a forager. To know more about him click here http://www.thewildfood.org/ or you can also visit his you tube channel click here-you tube page to visit the channel.

Roskruge, Nicholas Rahiri is a Professor in Ethnobotany at the School of Agriculture & Environment, College of Sciences, Massey University. He has a degree in Horticultural Technology majoring in crop and soil systems and has completed a Ph.D. in Soil Science which developed a management model suited to Maori land. He is involved in a wide range of projects throughout the country related to Māori development. The most well known is the Taewa Maori project which involves iwi (tribe) and projects throughout Aotearoa/New Zealand. He is also a Chairman of the National Maori Vegetable Growers Collective, Tahuri Whenua Inc. Soc. His research interests include Horticulture/vegetable production, Maori Resource Studies, Maori & Pacific Agribusiness, Ethnobotany. He has published many papers and is the author of many books in these fields. He has also lead many projects like 'Our Land and Water (OLW) Vision Matauranga Think Piece', 'Tracing the influence of cultivation on the whakapa of endemic NZ plants with molecular markers' etc. He also teaches at the University and has supervised many M.Sc. and Ph.D. students on various components of the Maori community. His other areas of expertise include Soil Sciences, Farm Management, Rural Management, Agribusiness and Environmental Sciences.

This is the first National Virtual Consultation on “Multi-faceted Citizens’ Portal on Medicinal Plants” organised to take the suggestions from citizens across India