Educational and Entertaining - Basecamp (Google location Map) is located next to Kanthavara forest, famous for leopards, wild boar, porcupine, birds and butterflies

Biodiversity, Camera Trap basics, Clean-up drive, How the Basecamp started, Arboretum, Permaculture study tour, Zero Budget Natural Farming (ZBNF), Picnic, Camping, Herping, WFF, Join BNHS, Join Bamboo Society of India, KAPY+BSI, Volunteer info, Apply for Internship, Regenerative Agriculture - Rubber - Tapping and Process, Why Forest Compost is the best, Yoga, Diet detox, Urwa - Farmville, Laudato Si - Study Tour, Jeeth and Bhuvan, Rescue and Rehab in Kanthavara, Gallery 2, Forest Bungalow Experience, Book via Ticket Shifu, PaySCT Bamboo Study Tour & Construction with Bamboo, Bambusetum Trekking, Birding, Forest Night Tour, Dorm, Bungalow, experiential learning

Certification course

1. Forests:
   1. What is a forest
   2. Layers of vegetation
   3. State on India's forest
   4. How many saplings to replace a tree
   5. Role of forests in rainfall
   6. Biotic pump, Vid
   7. How do raindrops form?
   8. Water harvesting in a farm / water optimization in rehabilitated forest
   9. Fire breaks in forests
2. Bamboo:
   1. Bambusetum
   2. Vareities worldwide and in India
   3. Landscape engineering, water harvesting tool
3. Regenerative agro
   1. Commercial agro vs Regen
   2. Regen, Permaculture, Vedic, Halal, Organic similarities / differences
   3. Stalwarts, Fukuoka, Carson, Gabe brown, Bill mollison
   4. ZBNF
   5. Nitrogen cycle, Carbon cycle, Phosphorus and Potassium cycles, micro nutrients
   6. In-situ / Forest compost, assigning economical value to standing (not cut) trees
4. Regulations: 
   1. Acts KPTA 1976, NFP 1988, FCA 1980, WPA 1972
   2. Tree / forest felling - Registering a complaint with the forest department and follow up
   3. Land use rights, tenancy (titles)
   4. Dishaank, Bhoomi, GIS systems, Google earth
   5. Registering a complaint with the pollution control board
   6. Agencies working on registering violations (NECF, HRPF, Aranya etc)
   7. Legal remedies - PIL's, Injunction/stay
   8. Carrying capacity basics
5. Flora
   1. Western ghat flora basics
   2. Types of root systems
   3. Tree as a resource recycling pump
   4. Mycorrhizal network
   5. How does water travel up a tree 100's of ft
6. Fauna
   1. Birding basics
   2. Herping basics
   3. Butterfly basics
   4. Mushroom basics
   5. Rescue and rehabilitation of animals / birds
7. Tools
   1. Camera trap basics
   2. Macro (mobile) photography
   3. Drone photography
   4. Wildlife photography/filmmaking basics
   5. Surveillance camera basics
8. Biodiversity
   1. What is / Use of Biodiversity basics, Biodiversity loss, indexation
   2. BDA 2002
   3. NBA, SBB, BMC, PBR (examples)
   4. Addition to PBR
   5. Sacred groves