Dear Vijay and all other friends Apart from building database one more thing we can do as a group is work of conservation in some important hot spots like Western Ghats and North East India
Mining in these hotspots is major threat to diversity of butterflies as well as for other wildlife. I dont know how we are going to do this but we should think over it some time in the future other wise in the few years we will have to watch this beautifull jewels of Forests in the photographs only. Apart from Butterflies i request you to support 'Ranwata' in Satara for protecting Kaas which is famous for its flowers. Goverment of Maharashtra wants to develop this plateau as a tourist spot which includes building hotels and other infrastructure facilities for tourists. This is ultimately going to destroy the place which is home to some of the most endemic and very rare plants. I request all the members not to publish any photos on Kaas because more u publish them most people want to visit the place. And 90% of them are not aware of what they are doing. I have observed people playing football cricket on kaas plateau. I am not mentioning loss caused by throwing plastic and other garbage there. More we publishing the pics on social sites more harm we are doing to nature. I was publishing the photos in the past unaware of these facts. But last week some people from my area went to Kaas after watching photos on my Facebok and Orkut profile. They told me they enjoy running there and other things. that has told me truth about harm we are doing unintentionally to the nature. Regards Rohan Lovalekar On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 8:38 AM, Vijay Barve <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Dear Friends, > > I still can't believe that we are nine years old. The discussions with > Krushnamegh, Aravind and Soubadra are still fresh in my mind about starting > a group for Butterfly lovers. We said we have 10-12 people in mind, but may > be we will find more. The group wa created in October 2001. And today we > stand 1200 strong. > > Happy Birthday ButterflyIndia !!! > > I suggest now we need to take some time and introspect a bit. What all have > we achieved in last nine years and were we, as a group really useful ? > Please do share your thoughts and experiences on this. It will be useful to > hear, where we helped and where we failed too. If you are reluctant of > discussing failures in the group, do send me personally, because that is > more important for us for improvements. > > What I feel is, this is the time now we need get more serious in the way we > do things on group, and direct our efforts to contribute to something > constructive. I do not mean to change anything in the group, specially how > it communicates. What I want to suggest is let us do something together in a > little way which will have some long term impact. > > One of the ideas I have in mind is to build a occurrence database. We all > watch butterflies or regular basic, and many of us keep notes of that. What > if we all just put these notes together in a some systematic way, it will > generate a huge database covering most of the species sen inindia and most > parts of India too. > > There could be more interesting ideas with you all, please share them and > let us start working on those in this coming year. > > Do share your thoughts and ideas. > > Cheers !!! > > Vijay > > -- > --- > Vijay Vasant Barve > http://diversityindia.org/ > --- > > -- Enjoy
