Highlights:
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| Check dam being built by our volunteers in Compartment No 56 |
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| The completed check dam |
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| Volunteers cleaning a waterhole in Compartment No 96 |
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| Children with speech and hearing impairment gather for our safari |
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| Our free health camp - Dr Zanzal examines a patient |
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| Our volunteers assist Forest Department staff in patrolling the park - in Compartment 96 |
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| Our volunteers join Forest Department staff on night patrol |
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| Film show for students with speech and hearing impairment |
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| Asalpani - volunteers clean plastic litter near the jungle |
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| Itta Chunnilal Katlam, who started a grocery store in Jindatola with our assistance, under our livelihoods programme |
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| Mamta Manohar Meshram has started a poultry farm with our assistance, under our livelihoods programme |
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| Wildlife film screening at Kodebarra |
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| Our Conservation Officer Mukund Dhurve gives a talk about birds to students in Kuradi |
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| Our free health camp at Mangezari |
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| Students on a nature trail, Pongezara |
THE FULL REPORT
Team:
Mukund Dhurve - Asst.
Conservation Officer
Jivraj Salam
-
Field assistant
Salimkumar Dhurve -
Field assistant
Highlights
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Joined Forest Department staff on 7 patrols
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5 community assistance voluntary work programs
to clean area next to hand pumps in villages
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5 anti-plastic programmes
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4 waterholes cleaned in Compartments no.
109, 96, 110 and 56
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Built 1 check dam in Compartment no. 56
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Organised safari for students from Gondia school
for students with speech and hearing impairment
Conservation
Our team organised 5 community assistance programs in November to clear areas around hand pumps in different villages. Unemployed young villagers from Mangezari participated in all the programmes, led by our team Mukund and Salimkumar. Details of the programmes are given in the table above.
Water had spilled over while people drew from the hand pumps and had stagnated, leading to proliferation of mosquitoes and insects. Our teams cleared the area, removing scum and organic growth and dug canals to drain away the water.
Our team joined the Forest Department in day and night patrols
in Compartment no. 96, Compartment no. 57, Compartment no. 109 and on the roads
linking Mangezari to Kodebarra, Mangezari to Jindatola, Mangezari to
Govindtola, Mangezari to Bagadband. Besides our staff, volunteers from a youth
club at Mangezari also joined in the patrols. The youth club was set up with
our assistance and is mentored by our Conservation Officer Mukund Dhurve.
During the month, our team organised 5 anti-plastic programmes to clean
polythene/plastic litter from villages. The programmes were organised on November
5, 7, 11, 22 and 23 at Jindatola, Asalpani, Mangezari, Pitezari and
Govindtola villages respectively. Mukund, Salimkumar and Jivraj organised
the programmes which were attended by villagers and village eco-development
committee (VEDC) members. The plastic litter has been kept in our Mangezari
office and will be sent to Tiroda for recycling.
The Government of Maharashtra has issued the buffer zone
notification for the Navegaon-Nagzira Tiger Reserve. Following this, doubts
have sprung up in the minds of villagers as to how they will be affected by the
notification. Due to the doubts, some villagers are opposing the notification.
To clear these doubts and misgivings, we organised 2 awareness programmes
during November
in Thadezari and Pitezari.
On November 24, we organised a
programme to build a check dam in Compartment no. 56 in which our staff, forest
guard and villagers volunteered.
Education
There were 4 education programmes in November 2017 which
were attended by 562 students.
Education van
There were 6 education programmes during November which were
attended by 726 students.
Employment Cell activities
During November, we assisted two
members of a women’s self-help group, based in Jindatola, in starting their own
small business units.
Mobiles Health Service
There were 6 health camps in November.
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