Dear Friends, I still can't believe that we are nine years old. The discussions with Krushnamegh, Aravind and Soubadra are still fresh in my mind about starting a group for Butterfly lovers. We said we have 10-12 people in mind, but may be we will find more. The group wa created in October 2001. And today we stand 1200 strong.
Happy Birthday ButterflyIndia !!! I suggest now we need to take some time and introspect a bit. What all have we achieved in last nine years and were we, as a group really useful ? Please do share your thoughts and experiences on this. It will be useful to hear, where we helped and where we failed too. If you are reluctant of discussing failures in the group, do send me personally, because that is more important for us for improvements. What I feel is, this is the time now we need get more serious in the way we do things on group, and direct our efforts to contribute to something constructive. I do not mean to change anything in the group, specially how it communicates. What I want to suggest is let us do something together in a little way which will have some long term impact. One of the ideas I have in mind is to build a occurrence database. We all watch butterflies or regular basic, and many of us keep notes of that. What if we all just put these notes together in a some systematic way, it will generate a huge database covering most of the species sen inindia and most parts of India too. There could be more interesting ideas with you all, please share them and let us start working on those in this coming year. Do share your thoughts and ideas. Cheers !!! Vijay -- --- Vijay Vasant Barve http://diversityindia.org/ --- -- Enjoy
