Earth Calling is a series about matters of the earth: stories of environment, wildlife and the wide natural world around us. Through this show we will visit exotic, beautiful places nestled in the lap of nature and take a hard look at environmental concerns that threaten their future survival. In Earth Calling, we will meet people who watch out for nature, raise crucial questions and fight the odds to save that one tree, that one animal or bring water to a whole thirsting village.

In this episode, we travel to Coorg, Karnataka, a global bio-diversity hot-spot, and also renowned for its coffee and spice plantations.

These coffee and spice plantations however have seen extensive use of pesticides, deeply affecting the ecology, and in some cases resulting in death of rare bird species.

At the same time the steady spread of coffee estates has dangerously eaten into crucial jungle areas, fragmenting the elephant corridor, and giving rise to human-elephant conflict.

So within all this, we meet Dr. Sujata and Dr. Anurag, who are trying to re-imagine Coorg by pioneering bio-pesticides on their organic farms. We also meet Pamela, who is trying to give back to elephants the forest they lost – by re-building the elephant corridor.

Plantations versus rainforest, humans versus animals, chemical cure versus bio-pesticides. But, as we see in ‘EARTH CALLING’, somewhere conservation is leading the way. There are people who are watching out for this paradise. And whatever is being attempted today has a vision for the future.