When we look closely, every animal left on this planet asks for just one thing — food enough for its stomach. Not wealth. Not land. Not luxury. Just survival.

Yet we, the self-proclaimed caretakers of the Earth, have built systems that ensure we eat well, even if everything else starves. The forests are shrinking, waterholes are drying, and what little remains of nature is fenced, mined, or converted to human convenience.

At Bagdara Farms, in the heart of the Bandhavgarh Tiger Reserve, we see this imbalance every single day. The monkeys, deer, wild boars, peacocks, and even elephants don’t come looking for comfort — they come looking for fruit, for grass, for grains. For life.

And unlike us, they don’t hoard it. They eat what they need, leave the rest, and in doing so, help something else survive.

If every human being fed the hungry around them — whether it’s a stray dog, a bird, or a wild animal displaced from its home — the planet would heal faster than any policy, prayer, or summit ever could.

But this is not about creating dependency. It’s about reparation — restoring what we took, rebuilding what we broke, and giving back what we borrowed from nature.

At Bagdara, 90% of the bananas we grow are eaten by elephants, birds, and wild deer. We don’t call it a loss. We call it balance. Because if we cannot share food with those who share this planet with us, we have lost the right to call ourselves evolved.

Closing Thought

Maybe the solution to climate change, extinction, and imbalance begins not with new technology — but with a simple, ancient act: feeding another life before feeding our ego.