Anant Hegde Ashisara is involved in protection of the environment, especially in the Western Ghats. He is also Chairman of the Western Ghat Task Force. He is also the Convener of Vriksh Laksha Andolan, a group of people from Malenadu dedicated to protecting the environment. He is involved in the people’s movement against mining activities in and around Ambaragudda hill range of Western Ghats located in Shimoga District, Karnataka. He has put efforts to get an arboreal heritage tag to 10 old trees of Karnataka. He expressed concerns over the safety of nuclear energy in the wake of damage experienced by nuclear power projects in the Japan tsunami (2010).