Children on a nature trail spend time with a camp elephant used by the Forest Department |
Volunteers collect material to build a check dam in Compartment No. 56 |
Completed check dam in Compartment No. 56 |
Members of Women's Self Help Group trained to make bangles made of lac |
Our volunteers join Forest Department staff on a patrol |
Our volunteers help clean a waterhole in the park |
Bolunda - Our team speaks to children during Wildlife Week |
Bolunda - Conservation rally organised by us during Wildlife Week |
Jindatola - volunteers clearing wild growth to prevent snakes and scorpions hiding in the vegetation |
Kodebarra - villagers clear wild growth to prevent snakes and scorpions from hiding in the vegetation |
Mangezari - conservation rally |
Thadezari - volunteers from the village clean up plastic litter from the area near the forest |
Forest Department clear wild growth near the Umarzari gate |
THE FULL REPORT
Team:
Mukund Dhurve - Asst.
Conservation Officer
Jivraj Salam
-
Field assistant
Salimkumar Dhurve -
Field assistant
Highlights
·
Joined
Forest Department staff on 9 patrols
·
9 community
assistance programmes to clean area next to hand pumps
·
9 anti-plastic
programmes
·
Cleaning
of waterholes in Comp. no. 114, Comp. no. 56
·
Built 1 check
dam at Comp. no. 56
·
Celebrated
Wildlife Week
Conservation
Our team organised
9 community assistance programs in October to clear areas around hand pumps in
different villages. 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 linking Mangezari to Kodebarra, Mangezari to Jindatola, Mangezari to
Govindtola, Mangezari to Bagadband, Mangezari to Balapur and Mangezari to
Bolunda and in Compartment no. 108, Compartment no. 56 and Compartment no. 57.
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 9 anti-plastic programmes to clean
polythene/plastic litter from villages. The programmes were organised on October
9, 13, 14, 15, 18, 21, 24, 25 and 29 at Jindatola, Thadezari,
Sodlagondi, Chorkhamara, Pitezari, Umarzari, Govindtola, Thadezari and Asalpani 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 October
in Thadezari and Sodlagondi.
On October 23, we build a check dam
in Compartment no. 56 in which forest guard, volunteers and our staff participated.
We also celebrated Wildlife Week
from 1st to 7th October.
Education
There were 4 education programmes in October 2017 which were
attended by 955 students.
Employment Cell activities
Two women started making bangles
from lac. They were earlier trained through a programme organised by us in
making bangles from lac.
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