New Acropolis in Mumbai and Pune hosted events as part of the marking International Mother Earth day over the weekend of 27 & 28 April 2024. This International day first established by UN General Assembly in 2009 is marked by over 50 countries of New Acropolis across the world with events talks and activities.

Our events which started off with the Mangrove cleanup earlier in April came to a finale with public talks garnering participation of over 200 people, diving into the sanctity of India’s Sacred Groves, shedding light on the significance of these spaces in contemporary times.

In Mumbai on 28 April, Environmentalist, historian and author Dr Nanditha Krishna and National Director of New Acropolis India Yaron Barzilay took participants on a journey of rediscovering India’s rich tradition of the Sacred Groves in an event organised in Collaboration with Bombay Natural History Society.