Mumbai: Brikesh Singh is getting ready to climb another tree, this time inside a tiger reserve, and stay there for a month - not for fun or to avoid the big cats but to draw the young generation's attention to saving the environment.
On September 1, the 32-year-old Greenpeace campaigner, born and brought up in the slums of Mumbai, will climb a tree on the site of a proposed power plant inside the buffer zone of the Tadoba tiger reserve in Maharashtra's Chandrapur district.
Singh, a cyclist and climber, has already built a tree house and equipped it with a solar charger and a laptop - his window to the outside world.
He will be perched atop the tree throughout September and will climb down only Oct 1 - the day the Convention on Biological Diversity takes off in Hyderabad in Andhra Pradesh....
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