Adarsh Prathap
Adarsh Prathap is a filmmaker and environmentalist from Kerala, India. He mainly documents social projects of NGOs and government agencies. He also makes films on environment especially on wetlands and climate change, and has won several awards for his photography and videos. He was the Global Youth Reporter for COP23 of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. He co-founded Climatehood, a platform for climate action and education, and initiated several socially relevant projects.
He was the regional coordinator of Youth Engaged in Wetlands, a global network of young wetland advocates . He did his Masters at the College of Agriculture, Vellayani, Kerala. He won the 2016 World Wetlands Day youth photo contest and got a chance to visit the Pantanal, the world's largest wetland, in Brazil . He also won the 2017 global youth video competition on climate change for his film 'Let mangroves recover', which highlights the importance of mangroves for coastal protection and biodiversity.
