Voice for the voiceless
The organization's mission focuses on advocating environment friendly policies, equitable access to education, species conservation, and sustainable livelihood development by involving community. Arulagam endeavors to enable welfare of tribals and local communities and to strengthen their role in conserving flora and fauna – especially belonging to endangered, neglected, less charismatic and lesser-known species.


Subbaiah Bharathidasan, Co-founder and Secretary, Arulagam, India
Subbaiah Bharathidasan was born in India and has been involved with the conservation movement since 1992. He started out as an environmental journalist, and later served as a renewable energy advocate and a technical adviser at a government botanical nursery. He has written several Tamil-language books about the environment, and he regularly contributes to wildlife and environmental magazines. He is also one of the founders and the current secretary of Arulagam, a nonprofit organization that seeks to conserve nature for the benefit of all living things.
With support from a series of CEPF grants dating back to 2009, Arulagam established a program to protect vultures in Tamil Nadu State.

Vulture Conservation

River Moyar Conservation





