Highlights:
Plastic litter clean-up drive, Dewada |
Field Assistant Kishor Dudhbarai discusses fodder plantation and grazing issues with villagers in Katwal |
Katwal villagers removing wild growth to prevent snakes and scorpions entering the area |
Dr Shailesh Pawde at our free health camp at Kutwanda |
Kutwanda villagers participate in a foot patrol, and learn to identify scrapes and scats of different animals for efficient monitoring |
Kondegaon villagers clear the area around a water tank |
Conservation Officer Ajay Poddar briefs candidates for our 4-wheeler driver training programme |
Our sports tournament at Mudholi, to promote conservation awareness |
Participants at the sports tournament at Mudholi |
THE FULL REPORT
Team:
Conservation
Officer: Mr. Ajay Poddar
Field
Assistant: Mr. Kishor Dudhbarai
Highlights of the month:
·
Nature camp organised
for 15 students of Zilla Parishad (ZP) schools
·
6 anti-plastic drives
and programmes to remove monsoon shrubs - 85 villagers participated
·
1 foot patrol in
Tadoba buffer with the youths of Khutwanda village - 8 young villagers participated
·
3 women self-help
group (SHG) meetings attended by 35 members
·
4 village
eco-development committee (VEDC) meetings were organised - 43 members attended
·
Organised meeting for
driver’s training programme - 40 unemployed vilagers attended
·
Medical camps in 6
villages- 403 patients treated
Nature Orientation Camp 2017
On December 7th
and 8th Satpuda Foundation organised a two-day nature camp for 15
students from 3 villages. Various nature-oriented activities were organised
during the camp with the support of teachers from Zilla Parishad
schools, Kondegaon, Mudholi and Katwal and Maharashtra State Forest Department.
The camp was held at the Forest
Department’s nature camping site in Agarzari village where the children could
learn about nature in a suitable ambiance. Activities like nature trails, nature
games, bird watching, presentation on wildlife conservation, wildlife
documentaries and film shows, anti-plastic and cleanliness drives were organised
during the camp. We also organised a safari
in the jungle for the students and the teachers where they were able to see spotted
deer, antelope, mongoose, various bird species and the iconic tiger. The importance
of nature and wildlife and their conservation was conveyed to the
students through these activities.
Conservation
On December 2nd,
5th,11th, 12th, 21st and 28th we organised cleanliness and anti- plastic
programmes with villagers and students of ZP schools of Katwal, Khutwanda, Sitarampeth,
Kondegaon and Dewada villages. Programmes were organised to clean the areas in
and around the villages and to clear the monsoon growth around the hand pumps
and wells as they choke the irrigation system. Clearing of the growth also
helps reduce man-animal conflict as these shrubs provide shelter to snakes and
scorpions.
Environment
Education
Employment Cell
We organised 3
self-help group (SHG) meetings and 4 village eco-development committee (VEDC)
meetings, focusing on alternative livelihoods which would reduce dependence on
the forests. 78 villagers attended these meetings.
We introduced the
villagers to district level vocational training and employment schemes like
four-wheeler driver’s training programme, hospitality courses under Deen Dayal
Upadhyay Gramin Kaushal Yojna (DDUGKY) etc.
On December 26th,
we organised a meeting with the candidates interested in four-wheeler driver’s
training. During the meeting we also discussed other vocational training
programmes like plumbing work, mobile repairing etc. 40 youths of buffer villages attended this
meeting at our Moharli office.
Details of the
programmes are given below:
Candidates list
Mobile Health Unit
Team: Dr. Shailesh Pawade, Coordinator: Mr. Ashok Athawle. MHU driver: Mr. Gajanan Shanware
6 camps were organised
by us in December in which a total of 354 patients got free treatment and
medicines.
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