ABOUT THE MILLENNIUM FELLOWSHIP - CLASS OF 2024
United Nations Academic Impact and MCN are proud to partner on the Millennium Fellowship. This year, 52,000+ young leaders applied to join the Class of 2024 on 6,000+ campuses across 170 nations. 280+ campuses worldwide (just 5%) were selected to host the 4,000+ Millennium Fellows.

UNITED NATIONS ACADEMIC IMPACT AND MCN PROUDLY PRESENT PRIYANSHU KAR, A MILLENNIUM FELLOW FOR THE CLASS OF 2024.
West Bengal National University of Juridical Sciences | Kolkata, India | Advancing SDG 15, SDG 11, SDG 9, SDG 16 & UNAI 9

" I’m thrilled to be a Millennium Fellow because it empowers me to turn my passion for creating positive social impact into tangible change. This role connects me with a network of like-minded individuals, amplifying our collective ability to address pressing global challenges and drive meaningful progress. "
Millennium Fellowship Project: The Dovecote Project: A Pigeon Rehabilitation Initiative
The Dovecote Project is a re-domestication project targeting the urban feral pigeon population by introducing policies and infrastructure that reduce human-animal conflict, ensure animal health, and encourage re-adoption of the pigeon as a domestic companion and pet.
The core of the Dovecote Project is a system of low-cost communal lofts erected in a data-driven approach near roosting hotspots so as to provide safe and accessible points of contact and refuge, enabling diet monitoring, health and hygiene tracking, population surveillance, and analytical management.
The long-term goals of the project also include phased and sensitive feral population control, working with municipal administrations and civic bodies to enact policies that reduce political and socio-economic hazards to urban ecosystem balance, and minimum-harm deterrence and removal of unregulated wild nesting zones.
The best-case vision of the project is a complete elimination of the feral pigeon population through re-domestication and the encouragement of adoption and responsible breeding, as well as the creation of infrastructure and policies facilitating the same.
About the Millennium Fellow
Priyanshu Kar is a bright, young and globally competitive law student at the West Bengal National University of Juridical Sciences, Kolkata. He was born in India, resides in West Bengal and did his schooling from Don Bosco School, Park Circus, Kolkata. He has always been a passionate musician and sportsperson. He is also an advocate of heritage protection and conservation. He aspires to be in professional field where he can cultivate his contribution to the society in a positive and impactul way.





