a new and pamela malhotra regularly check the camera traps it allows them to monitor even the extremely shy leopard. more than $200.00 endangered species live in their sanctuary home the same animals initiative it covers 1.2 square kilometers of forest in southern india. it's the. months work about 25 years ago the couple began to buy land here piece by piece with their own money. what was here and 95 were basically plantation lands or abandoned rice fields many areas were relatively barren of any type of tree cover because of having had coffee grown on them. today what is here now all of those lands have basically recovered they created indians 1st private protected area and reforested it on a large scale. this is also what we have gone to along with poles and saplings and different going to create. that didn't mean to be made me do trees good to syria. we have had a number of scientific studies done within the sanctuary grounds and native trees soak up much more carbon dioxide than the exotic stew so this helps to mitigate or cushion the effects of climate change the monks are letting