My Jungle - Participatory Forest Conservation

We express gratitude to the donors for committing to the My Jungle - Participatory Forest Conservation. Also, we are grateful to the Global Giving for providing the platform to spread a word about our work and fundraising. 

Awareness and Nature trail

Awareness in schools children continues in the region the information about the Importance of various plants and their role in the environment. This session helps to create curiosity and Knowledge about Nature in the young mind and most important is spread awareness to protect nature throughout the region. Field experience is the most important key for field experience Nature trail was taken for the children in which they get hands-on knowledge about the plants, birds in their surrounding there importance. In Nature trail, children’s learn to identification key characteristic of Plants and Birds, Identification through Nature guide. Such activity brings this generation more close to nature which will help this young’s mind to take steps for conservation and nature protection in the region

Tree plantation

Regular Tree Plantation activity is taking place in the region with the help of the local people. The native tree such as Lagerstroemia speciosa (Tamhan), Alstonia scholaris (Satvin), Ficus religiosa (Pimple), Memecylon umbellatun (Anjani), Syzygium cumini (Jambul) etc. Through such activity, local people involved in conservation during the plantation local people were aware of the importance of such native plants.

Strengthening local livelihoods

 Meeting and discussion on the community livelihoods, some livelihood areas that can be strengthened have been identified in these discussions such as Homestay and Apiculture. Sahyadri Nisarga Mitra had taken steps and started Homestay in Choravane village in the region where wildlife enthusiast and trekker’s visits and stay at local villagers place through which local villagers generate a sustainable resource of livelihood. Apiculture or Beekeeping is one of the sustainable resources of livelihood Sahyadri Nisarga Mitra had started training for the local villager and providing native honeybee Apis cerena species Honey bee boxes. Such activity help in conservation of native honeybees and through bee pollination increased in a crop, fruits productivity in the region.

Awareness Workshop

 To create awareness for conservation of Indian Pangolin awareness workshop held at Mandangad block­ of Ratnagiri district. Village head, Police Patil, and students of the various schools and colleges, officers from the forest department and police department and local villagers were present from entire block. Officials from forest department introduced to people the laws and current status of Indian pangolin. At the end of the workshop, all people gave the pledge to the conservation of Indian pangolin in their work area.

Natural water resources conservation

 Sahyadri Nisarga Mitra with local people of Choravane village had built a small dam at Choravane village water stream for water conservation and fulfill the requirement of water in the village. Past few years local villagers facing water shortage in the region even the groundwater level was dropped to get rid of such issues Sahyadri Nisarga Mitra had discussed with villagers and had built a dam in the region with local support.

Camera Trap Wildlife Survey

 The camera traps are set up in consultation with the community members having expertise and knowledge about wildlife. Compilation of the images from the trap cameras will be an important aid in awareness generation on the wildlife existing in the area.

Project updates September 2018

We thank the donors for committing to the My Jungle - Participatory Forest Conservation. Also, we are grateful to the Global Giving for providing the platform to spread a word about our work and fundraising. 

Tree Plantation: Tree Plantation activity was carried out with the awareness on the       Importance of plants for life cycle. The native tree such as Lagerstroemia speciosa (Tamhan), Alstonia scholaris (Satvin), Ficus religiosa (Pimple), Memecylon umbellatun (Anjani), Syzygium    cumini (Jambul) etc was done with the help of local peoples. 

Tree Plantation program held in Guruvarya Lalasaheb Patankar Vidyalaya, Bopoli in the month of September. The students of 8^th and 9^th std. actively participated in this program. Project officer encouraged students to preserve trees which play a vital role in maintaining the ecological balance. He added that it is the responsibility of every one of us to not only grow trees but also taking care of and protecting them.

 Strengthening local livelihoods: Meeting and discussion on the community livelihoods were conducted in Choravane Village of district Ratnagiri. General community members and village council (Gram Panchayat) members were consulted. Some livelihood areas that can be strengthened have been identified in these discussions. These areas have been an improvement in rice productivity, energy source other than fuelwood and nature tourism and homestay for tourists as income generation activities for the local community. The response of the community has been encouraging. In the due course, we will work to materialize the outcome of these discussions.

Awareness Lectures: Awareness lectures held in Netaji Subhaschandra Highschool, Koynanagar giving the information about the Importance of various plants and their role in the environment. This session helps to create curiosity and Knowledge about Nature in the young mind and most important is spread awareness to protect nature throughout the region.

Use of camera traps to document the wildlife: The camera traps are set up in consultation with the community members having expertise and knowledge about wildlife. Compilation of the images from the trap cameras will be an important aid in awareness generation on the wildlife existing in the area.