Wildlife Week 2011-Photo Exhibition

[prashantsingh]

Inviting all members in and around Doon to visit the Photography Exhibition to commemorate

Wildlife Week (1st Week of October)
Date : 2nd October to 4th October
Place: Wildlife Preservation Society of India (Office)
Astley Hall
Dehradun
Time: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Photographs by
Mr Rajeev Mehta (eminent wildlife photographer)
Dr Dushyant Singh (H-O-D.Path. HIHT)
and yours truly (Dr P.Singh).

[kanwar76]

Wishing you all the best for the exhibition Prashant.

-Inder

[Baljit]

Good luck for exhibition Prashant.

Baljit

[Safarigent]

me coming sir

[prashantsingh]

Thanks for the wishes .
You are welcome Safarigent.
Our's is the oldest Association in North India. Unfortunately we are short of funds. This is an attempt to raise funds for the organisation and to increase the number of members. You will find it interesting to know that there are less than 400 members all over the country. Our membership fee is Rs 400 (annual members) and Rs 4000 (life members). Which was half (of this) till last year.Yet we have few takers.
Specially amongst the Youth . Most of our meeting are attended by grey heads.
In the last meeting one of the oldies pointed out that todays youngsters spend most of the sitting infront of the T.V. or the computer.
Thought I don't consider myself young. I felt a little guilty.
When you are here . I will force you to become a member Safarigent

[Safarigent]

sir, i have filled out the form from the magazine which you had sent along with dad.
i did not want to impose and ask you to get my membership done but now that you have offered, i shall be sending the form along tomorrow.

[shooter]

good luck

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A note which was published in one of the local news papers:


Endangered
India is blessed to be one of the 12 mega-biodiversity countries in the world. Its two wildlife "hot spots" — the eastern Himalayas and the Western Ghats — with only 2.4 per cent of the global land area, possess more than 45,000 plant species representing about 11 per cent of the world's biota. India's immense faunal diversity that is estimated to be over 81,000, represents about 6.5 per cent of world's fauna. As many as 29 endangered species like slow loris, brown bear, Himalayan lynx, clouded leopard, musk deer, ibex etc. are found in India.
Every year, Wildlife Week is celebrated by governments, environmentalists and activists to accelerate the awareness of wildlife conservation and environment among people. But all the hoopla lasts just a week. Then the concern over wildlife is relegated to the ‘backburner’, or the mandate to conserve the wild species is given to the NGOs.

Today, very few would know that efforts to conserve Indian wild life began in Dehradun. In the late fifties, when hunting was on the rise, the Maharaja of Nabha, Sir Pratap Singh Malvendra Bahadur, thought of the need to form a group that would fight for the cause of protection of the wild life in India. He took up the cudgels to protect wild life, particularly at a time when awareness on conservation was minimal. He constituted the Wild Life Preservation Society of Northern India in 1959. Today, the Society is one of the oldest wildlife conservation societies of India which has remained alive since those early independence days, spreading the message of saving the flora and fauna, especially in the Himalayan foothills region. Mr A.S. Negi (President) informed us that the members of the society have been holding various programs including seminars, talks and excursions at various platforms, targeting to sensitize and educate youngsters and to harness the youth power in order to strengthen the cause of wildlife conservation. The society’s publication “Cheetal”, a quarterly journal regularly published by the society since 1959, draws attention of the young and old alike. An authority on wild life, Negi says a lot needs to be done for the promotion of conservation.

This year, Wildlife Conservation Week is being observed from 2-8 October 2011. Mr R P Kala (Secretary) informed that on this occasion, Wildlife Preservation Society is holding a Photography exhibition at its headquarters - 7, Astley Hall, Rajpur Road, Dehradun, from 3rd to 6th October ’11 (10am-1pm). The exhibition will showcase more than 40 wildlife pictures clicked by three photographers: Rajeev Mehta, who is a well known wildlife photographer who has also been an Honorary Wildlife Warden and is presently the Executive Vice President of the Society; Dr. Dushyant Singh Gaur, Head of Pathology Department at Himalayan Institute Hospital, Dehradun, who is a nature lover and recipient of First Prize for Nature Photography, awarded by the Governor Uttarakhand, during the ‘Spring

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Festival 2010’; and Dr Prashant Singh, who is a dental surgeon with keen interest in Wildlife conservation. With this exhibition, the society aims to attract young and enthusiastic people to become its members and carry its mission of wildlife conservation forward.

The key to global wildlife conservation in the 21st century must be to craft solutions that meet the specific requirements of endangered species. Celebration of Wildlife Week aims to attract the attention of law-makers and help correct the flaws in the conservation efforts by the government. Significantly, the society draws its strength from a large fraternity of experts from the region. Uttarakhand houses organisations like the Wild Life Institute, whose authority on wild life research and studies across the country is unparalleled