One person's individual commitment is the first step toward saving the planet for future generations. The Living Planet Campaign will, over the next four years, endeavor to ensure that these moving stories of personal commitment from individuals around the world are no longer the exception, but the rule.
Nature Heroes
Individuals and institutions both have a role to play in saving our planet. Below we have profiled great individuals whose conservation efforts have made a difference. Saving the planet begins with a personal commitment.

Ranthambore National Park
Valmik Thapar's passion for saving the last tigers of India is so powerful it has consumed his life.

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Valmik Thapar


Missoula, Montana, USA
Bill Ball has mobilised a group of Senior Citizens to staunch the flow of pesticides that were destroying their river. Together they have created a thriving pesticide-free community garden. Their goals is to significantly increase the amount of organic community gardens in Montana by the year 2000.

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Valmik Thapar


Prespa, Greece
Prespa, in northern Greece, is where we find Jorgos and Mersini - a husband and wife team of biologists who are determined to save the lake's endangered pelicans and their beautiful village that lies on its shores. Together they have helped the residents of this little town just 10km from the Albanian border to value their ancient traditions over 20th-century shortcuts, and to change the way they fish in order to protect the lake's bird populations. Prespa Lake is the largest breeding ground for 36 of Europe's 38 birds of prey.

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Valmik Thapar