Vijay, Its great to hear such a good news. Hope it ever goes on increasing.
Sorry to say, but I fear 1200 doesn't mean any productive work. Is each and every member remained active even once in the past 6 months ? May be a large number of the members only sent an introductory mail to the group and since then have not contributed to the group. By contribution I do not mean only sending photos, links and any information. Asking questions in the group can be considered as a contribution, as questions can stretch our mind a little further. On a positive note, now we roughly have a species for everyone. We need to involve students, and other people who are not directly or not even remotely related to butterflies. Yes, its good to know that our group have software engineers, doctors, travel agents and tourists guide, pwd engineer, businessmen and a few from other profession ( we do have lot of researchers, lecturers etc.). Thanks to them for their interest. But basically we are missing the foundation - The Students. Go to a school, and ask about ButterflyIndia, and no body can even understand what it is ? But ask them what Animal Planet, National Geographic are, they are sure to answer within seconds. Yes, we are not paid by anyone to do seminars,workshop, discussion, field study and other activities related to butterfly in schools and colleges. We can try them, as it costs only around a few hundred. For example, In 2007, ButterflyNortheast, a sister concern of ButterflyIndia, formed in Assam, managed to do such works in three to four colleges of Assam. It gained a lot of positive reviews, even members of ButterflyIndia, encouraged such work.Most of the members were students of college, who had an exceptional interest in Butterfly. The seminars were basically organized by the members of ButterflyNortheast, money contributed by each member. They even had to pay for their own traveling expenses. The last workshop was held at Bajali College, Pathsala in Lower Assam. Due to mismanagement of the host, most of the members of the ButterflyNortheast, got disillusioned and never ever to thought about organizing the workshop again. Now ButterflyNortheast is lost in time. Again, as a member I want to learn more about butterfly wing and flight pattern. But my mail faced "Warnok's dilemma", and so nobody ever replied my mail. Can any body help me with it ? Regards Chandan Jyoti Gogoi "Those who would sacrifice freedom for security deserve neither." - Benjamin Franklin http://calvinssimulatedreality.blogspot.com/ http://sites.google.com/site/butterflynortheast1/ -- Enjoy
