A Journey into the Herder's Paradise

Dawa Tsangpo Bhutia is a conservation and wildlife filmmaker from Northeast India. Dawa has worked as a tour guide for nature treks in Sikkim. He was also associated with WWF (Zero Waste project) and Himal Raksha before he joined the Green Hub Fellowship program in 2017. During his fellowship, Dawa made many film including “A Journey into the Herders Paradise” along with Thangminlal Misao of Manipur on the yak herders of Sikkim. Post the fellowship he worked with Gurmeet Sapal at Hind Kisan as a cameraperson and Editor. He had also done freelance projects with the Govt. of Sikkim and RNBD. Currently, Dawa is engaged with UNESCO in a 360° VR project wherein the objective is to cover stories based on Act of Kindness.

Thangminlal Misao or “Lalboy” as he is popularly known is a 3rd batch fellow of the Green Hub Fellowship Program. Before joining the fellowship he was in his high school and simultaneously helping his parents in Jhoom and paddy cultivation. He joined the fellowship in the year 2017 and had made the film “A Journey into the Herder’s Paradise”. Lalboy is currently working with Inside Northeast, an organisation working towards the helping the young people from Manipur who take up arms at a very young age and join insurgent groups. Their project Gun to Pen is helping these youth understand the value of education and is trying to help them create an alternative solution.