About Us

Biodiversity Company

Ladybird Environmental Consulting is a social enterprise established in 2014 as Limited Liability Company. We came into business only to help people in helping environment. Therefore we believe in being agents of change, challenge status quo and innovate to serve environment effectively. We are specialists in environmental CSR (corporate social responsibility) and nature conservation. We exclusively work with largely listed companies and government departments in desining and executing environmental projects which largely have flavour of biodiversity.

Our Footprint

Mumbai
Navi Mumbai
Thane
Pune
Nasik
Chennai
Bengaluru
Hyderabad
Kolkatta
Ahmedabad
Bhopal
New Delhi
Gurgaon
Lucknow
Kanpur

Biodiversity Professionals

We are a small team with big aspirations. Dr. V.Shubhalaxmi is the founder and Mr. Isaac Kehimkar is the co-founder. Both are stalwarts in the field of biodiversity specially entomology.They are joined by young all girl team most of whom started as freshers but all holding Masters in Environmental Sciences degree.

Our Team and their profiles

Dr. V. Shubhalaxmi, Founder & Director

Mr. Isaac Kehimkar, Co-founder & Partner

Ms. Wilma D'cunha, Environment Officer, Mumbai

Mr. Gopal Bharti, Environment Officer, Hyderabad

Our Journey

In a short journey of 4 years, we have following achievements:

Clients & Partners: 26 clients (17 corporates, 5 Govt., 4 NGOs) and 25 partners.
Target Reach: Through our outreach programmes we have reached out to more than 10124 people clocking 5000 hours.
Butterfly Habitats: So far we developed 13 butterfly habitats (4), gardens (7), Parks (3). Altogether in all our sites we planted 51320 saplings.
Employee Engagement Programmes: We conducted over 128 programmes in 15 cities.
Lake Rehabilitation Project: This year we ventured into lake rehabilitation works which largely revolve around enhancing lake ecology through plantation, biodiversity surveys, community engagement and education.
Naturebased Mobile Apps: We developed four naturebased mobile apps (iButterflies, iTrees, iNaturewatch Birds, eForestrails-SGNP)
Wildlife Training Workshops: We conducted three major training for forest departments.
Publications: We have also Field Guide on Greater Mangroves, two are underprocess; Field Guide to Wildflowers of Sanjay Gandhi National Park and Field Guide to Indian Moths.
Nature Exhibition Development: We developed a full range of outdoor exhibits and signage on birds and butterflies for Govardhan Eco-village in Maharashtra.

Honours

2019

Dr. Shubhalaxmi is selected as a mentor for U..S. Consulate Mumbai's nine-month programme on Youth Environmental Leadership in collaboration with Ekonnect Knowledge Foundation.

2018

Dr. Shubhalaxmi was invited as key speaker to 2018 2nd International Symposium of Danaine Butterfly Ecological Research and Sustainable Tourism Development organized by Nanhua University, Taiwan.

Mr. Isaac Kehimkar gets elected as member of Governing Council Body of Bombay Natural History Society (BNHS)

2017

We were part of the winning team of the Makeover Design Competition of Maharashtra Nature Park in Mumbai organized by MMRDA.

2016

Dr. Shubhalaxmi was selected as one of the 50 Most Impactful Green Leaders by World CSR Day.

She also won grant from MMR-EIS for development of Cellphone Nature tour mobile app for Sanjay Gandhi National Park.

2015

Dr. Shubhalaxmi was selected for a year long Women Entrepreneurship Programme by Tehnoserve Foundation in collaboration with S.P. Jain Institute for Management Studies

2014

Dr. Shubhalaxmi & Isaac Kehimkar won the U.S State Department's global competition ( Alumni Innovation Engagement fund) for India. She developed three mobile apps for citizen science