A filmmaker whose work has won international and national accolades, Pradip Krishen is not your textbook environmentalist. Krishen stepped into the world of ecological restoration in unusual fashion in 1994 when he visited Pachmarhi in Madhya Pradesh to shoot his film Electric Moon. Krishen would go on “Latin walks” with his neighbour, a forester with an encyclopedic knowledge of trees and a fondness for scientific names. That was the start of Krishen’s journey with trees, giving India one of its best ecological restoration experts. Krishen went on to shape the Rao Jodha Desert Rock Park in Jodhpur and the Kishan Bagh Sand dune park in Jaipur, both considered pioneering projects in the field of ecological restoration.