Highlights:
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| Our volunteers fighting a fire in Compartment No. 109 |
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| Volunteers from buffer villages join Forest Department staff on patrol |
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| A drawing contest to celebrate World Earth Day |
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| Above, below: Volunteers help clean a jungle waterhole |
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| Students of Mangezari school on World Earth Day |
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| Pitezari - plastic clean-up drive by students |
THE FULL REPORT
Team:
Mukund Dhurve -
Conservation Officer
Jivraj Salam -
Field assistant
Salimkumar Dhurve - Field assistant
Highlights
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Joined Forest Department staff on 10 patrols
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6 programmes to clean water holes at Compartment
no. 109, 110, 56, 111,112 and 96
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10 community assistance voluntary work programs
to clean area next to hand pumps at Chorkhamara, Koilari, Jindatola, Bodalkasa, Asalpani, Balapur,
Sodlagondi, Bagadband and Thadezari
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10 anti-plastic programmes at Chorkhamara,
Jindatola, Bodalkasa, Kodebarra, Sodlagondi, Bolunda, Bagadband, Govindtola, Thadezari
and Pitezari
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Assist in fighting fires in forest in Compartments.no.56
and 109
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Celebrated World Earth Day on 20th
April
Conservation
Our team organised 6 programs in April to
clean water holes in Compartments 109, 110, 56, 111, 112 and 96.
Our team also organised 10 community
assistance programmess in April to clear areas around hand pumps at Chorkhamara, Koilari,
Jindatola, Bodalkasa, Asalpani, Balapur, Sodlagondi, Bagadband and Thadezari. Unemployed
youths from Mangezari participated in all programmes which were led by 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 on the roads from Mangezari to Kodebarra, Mangezari to
Jindatola, Mangezari to Govindtola, Mangezari to Bagadband and in Compartments
no. 119, 110, 96, 111, 114 and 109. 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 10 anti-plastic
programmes to clean polythene/plastic litter from villages. The programmes were
organised on April 2, 6, 9, 12, 16 and 17 at Chorkhamara, Jindatola, Bodalkasa,
Kodebarra, Sodlagondi, Bolunda, Bagadband, Govindtola, Thadezari and Pitezari 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.
During the month, our team assisted
in fighting fires in the forest in Compartments no. 56 on 7th
April
and in Compartment no. 109 on 10th April.
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 a total of
5 awareness programmes during April in 5 villages – Jindatola, Asalpani,
Thadezari, Bagadband and Pitezari.
Education
There were no education programmes
during April 2017 as students were busy with their annual examinations.
Education van
There were no education
programmes during April 2017 as students were busy with their annual
examinations.
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