Team: Anoop
Awasthi – Conservation Officer
Bandu Uikey, Dilip Lanjewar – Field
assistants
Highlights
- One
voluntary work project to construct compost pit at Ghatpendari
- Programme
to clean area next to village hand pump and water tank at Khapa
- Field
assistant Bandu Uikey joined Forest Department staff on anti-poaching
patrols thrice during the month
- Two
nature trails for the students of Ghatpendari and Sillari villages
- Environment
Education Programme in 11 villages -- covered 394 students
- Assisted
Forest Department in organizing livelihood programme to train unemployed
youths in driving four-wheelers
- 6
medical camps – 135 patients
treated
Conservation work
On February
19, Anoop and Bandu led a team of 8 villagers of Ghatpendari village in a
programme to construct compost pit near village anganwadi (play school) building
at Ghatpendari. The pit will take leftovers from meals, organic waste from
meals prepared in the school and will convert it into organic fertilizer over a
period of time.
Compost pit being prepared at Ghatpendari |
On February
24, Dilip led a team of 15 youths of Khapa village in a programme to clean the area
next to hand pump used by villagers to draw drinking water and an adjoining
tank which is used by domestic cattle for drinking. Spillover water was
stagnating around the hand pump while the tank had become clogged with leaves,
plastic and other organic matter. The team cleaned the area around the hand
pump, cleaned a canal next to it which will drain the spillover water and then
cleaned the tank. Photos below.
On February
17, Dilip led 15 children from Sillari village on a nature trail in the jungle
adjoining the village. On the trail, Dilip spoke to the children about the
importance of trees and wild life in our eco system. A similar nature trail was
organized by Bandu for 7 youths of Ghatpendari on February 12.
Dilip guides children from Sillari on a nature trail |
Youths from Ghatpendari on a nature trail |
On February 17, field assistant Bandu Uikey joined local staff of the Forest Department in an anti-poaching patrol. Members of the eco-development committee (EDC) of Ghatpendari also took part in the patrol in the jungle near Ghatpendari. Similar patrols were done on February 24 at Ghatpendari and at Ghatkukda on February 13.
Education
In February, our team conducted
environment education programmes in 12 schools in our area of operations.
Nature education through games, at Kadbikheda |
Environment education at Salai |
Nature game at Khapa school |
Nature game at Sawara school |
Employment Cell
With the aim of providing alternative livelihood options to local youths and to wean them away from
forest-dependent activities, the Forest Department had asked us to identify
suitable programmes for the youths and to identify candidates for the training
programmes. We suggested a programme to train youths as drivers of
four-wheelers and on February 20, the Forest Department launched a drivers’
training programme for 28 youths from Ghoti, Sillari, Pipariya, Wagholi and Khapa
villages. The one-month programme involves the local eco-development committees
also.
The driver training programme being launched at the Forest Department's eco-tourism complex at Sillari, Pench |
Mobile Health Unit (MHU)
Our team assisted Nature Conservation Society, Amravati in conducting 6 medical camps in February.
Free medical camp at Sillari |
Free camp at Wagholi |
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