Jugal Kishor Tiwari

Halophyte a Forestation, Nature Education Camps and Publication of Awareness Materials for Nature Conservation in Schools and Villages of Kutch District, Gujarat, India

Acacia nilotica plants for plantation at Sarannath Patio Forest.

Salvadora persica plants ready for plantation 24 th Sept 2008.

Plants ready for Schools and villages July 2009.

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Moti-Virani, Kutch, GujaratIndiaEducation, Indian Sub-continent29 Sep 2008

The project aim to do aforestation of native species of plants like Acacia nilotica, Cordia rohtii, Salvadora persica in the salt affected and dry desert regions of Kutch. We plan to involve students, teachers and local people in achieving this goal. At least 20 Schools are planned to be covered under our greening efforts in the School. Encouraged by our results of the first attempt we want to cover larger areas. Nature education camps for the School students is gaining interest, many School teachers are approaching us to cover them in nature-education plans of CEDO-Rufford Foundation for Small grant,as they hear this from other Schools.

The Wildlife awareness posters and exhibition also helps a lot in understanding the regions floral and faunal wealth. We plan to have the exhibition in WWF Wildlife week celebration in October, The project RSG grant will certainly help us to reach the remote villages and do meaningful conservation and awareness work in the district of Kutch.

You can read about Jugal's previous project at http://www.ruffordsmallgrants.org/rsg/projects/jugal_tiwari or for more information contact cedoindia@yahoo.com or go to www.cedobirding.com

Project Update: March 2009

The RSG follow up grant work in Kutch is going on very well and we have already completed the plantation of 12000 saplings of Salvadora persica, Acacia nilotica, Tecomella undulata Cordia rohtii, Neem, Delonix regia, and other 5 species of plants in the Schools and in the desert areas of Kutch.

We have organised 8 nature education camps and only two nature camps are remaining, we will be organising the remaining camps in March 2009.

The responce of Nature education camps in Moti-Virani, Nani Virani, Sukhpur, Devisar, Rameshwar, Mangvana, Varamseda, Schools was very good, The plantation in Schools have now grown up and the Saplings planted last year are now 4-6 feet tall. The plantation in desert area is also doing well with a success varying from 50-70 %.

Project Update: August 2009

All the 10 nature education camps were organised for the local schools. Over 12,000 saplings of plants were planted in schools, villages and in the wild. Five kg of seeds of Slavadora persica and Cordia rothii were sown in soil in the saline desert areas after the first shower of the monsoon in July 2009.

On 4th and 5th April 2009, a wildlife photo exhibition was organised in Bhuj - 3,000 people, including locals and students, visited the 2 day exhibition. Our plantation programme successfully covered 20 villages and schools.

Final Report

Read about the activities undertaken and findings of this project in the final report below.

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Booster Grant Awarded

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