We , group of volunteers, visit Matheran (near Mumbai) every Friday for field visit. Anyone interested can join in.
-- Regards Rajesh Sachdev http://project-matheran.webs.com/ http://www.facebook.com/leopardguy On 7 March 2012 02:35, Vijay <[email protected]> wrote: > ** > > > Hi > > It will be nice to go ahead and plan few outings (preferably once a month) > initially to know members and form groups in each city. Once we know few > people, we can take up the data compilation. > > For Bangalore, Krushnamegh may announce his date and time for GKVK and > members can join him to start with. Once they are familiar with > methodology, they may replicate it in their own areas with sub groups for > members. Aparna please go ahead and plan other places, till Krushnamegh > returns. > > It will be nice to have outing in each city once a month for new members > to learn form experienced members. So members form all cities are welcome > to announce the outings on group. So members from Mumbai, Kolkata, > Hyderabad, Trivendrum, Pune .... we are looking forward to announcements. > > Regards, > > Vijay > > --- In [email protected], Krushnamegh Kunte <krushnamegh@...> > wrote: > > > > Aparna, you have already taken the lead, so why don¹t you go ahead and > put > > together a list of us in BLR? If we are going to do this on a regular > basis, > > I would suggest that we identify two or three good spots to watch > > butterflies in and around BLR and start counting butterflies there twice > a > > month. That will be a very important dataset in the long term from which > we > > will learn a lot. Watching butterflies together on its own is good, but > > systematic population-level data collection will go a much longer way. I > am > > willing to do this on GKVK campus, so people from that part of town can > join > > me if they wish. Rohit Girotra goes to the reserve forest near house on a > > regular basis, maybe a team from that part of town can start working > there. > > Perhaps the various local teams could meet once in a while to exchange > notes > > on species identification, compile data and chat about butterflies. > > > > With best regards, > > > > Krushnamegh. > > ------------------------------------------------- > > > > Krushnamegh Kunte, PhD > > > > Ramanujan Fellow and Reader > > National Center for Biological Sciences (NCBS) > > Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR) > > GKVK, Bellary Road, > > Bengaluru 560065, India. > > Ph: +91 80 2366-6001/02/18/19, ext 6410 > > Ph (London): +44 7831-204-169 > > Mobile: + 91 9483-525-925 > > Email: krushnamegh@..., krushnamegh@... > > Website: http://biodiversitylab.org/ > > > > Indian Foundation for Butterflies: http://ifoundbutterflies.org/ > > Emails: krushnamegh@..., krushnamegh@... > > > > > > > > From: Aparna V K <bizzare.appu@...> > > Reply-To: butterflyindia <[email protected]> > > Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2012 09:25:25 +0530 > > To: butterflyindia <[email protected]> > > Subject: Re: [ButterflyIndia] Butterfly India needs a little more support > > from us. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Hi, > > > > A while ago there was a discussion on the group to start outings in > > different regions. Can we start this again? A lot of new comers like me > can > > learn a lot through such outings and interactions. I live in bangalore > and I > > see that quite a few of us from around here. Can we start 2 outings per > > month basis? I am willing to co-ordinate the arrangements. > > > > -- > > Aparna > > > > > -- Enjoy
