Collaborative conservation, led by communities, sustained for generations

Standpoint Earth supports locally grounded, relational approaches to ecology, Indigenous knowledge, and environmental governance — working with communities to shape conservation from the inside out.

Alexander Aisher, PhD.

FOUNDER & DIRECTOR
Environmental anthropologist and lead designer of the Seed Game® toolkit.
Vinita Damodaran, PhD.

CONSERVATION ADVISOR
Professor of South Asian History and Director of the Centre for World Environmental History, University of Sussex.
Keith Ellis

FACILITATION LEAD & CO-DIRECTOR
Creative facilitator, workshop designer and co-designer of the Seed Game® toolkit.
Cherry Buckwell, PhD.

HEALTHY SYSTEMS LEAD & CO-DIRECTOR
Medical lecturer and advisor on health in complex systems.

Research & Writing

Together with Vinita Damodaran, Alexander Aisher co-edited the widely cited special issue Human–Nature Interactions through a Multispecies Lens, which brought together interdisciplinary scholarship exploring ecology, more-than-human worlds, environmental change, and shifting relationships between humans and other forms of life across anthropology, history, and the environmental humanities.

Alexander Aisher’s work brings together anthropology, ecology, oral traditions, and environmental governance through both academic research and narrative nonfiction. His current book project, Beneath a Blessing Sun: human belonging in a shared world, emerges from long-term fieldwork among Nyishi communities in Arunachal Pradesh in the Eastern Himalayas.

Ensuring conservation is locally driven and community-led.

Contact us.

We have run Seed Game workshops with:

The Children’s Forest.

The Children’s Forest is a UK movement helping children and communities reconnect with nature through long-term forest creation and care, bringing together young people, educators and landowners in community-led reforestation projects
Seva Mandir.

Seva Mandir supports cohesive and inclusive communities through the creation of democratic forums spanning gender, socio-economic divides and castes to encourage self-governance.
Foundation for Ecological Security.

The Foundation for Ecological Security is committed to strengthening, reviving, or restoring, where necessary, the process of ecological succession and the conservation of land, forest and water resources in india.
Krishi Avam Paristhitiki Vikas Sansthan (KRAPAVIS)

KRAPAVIS is an NGO committed to conserving Rajasthan’s sacred village forests, known as ‘Orans,’ to sustain rural livelihoods and biodiversity.