As of now this group is good for people who need sighting records and photos from various parts of India. I got plenty of photos of migratory species from various places and it is lot of good data for me.
Best thing would be to form local butterfly groups of 5 - 10 people and to take up some subject and to do long term studies, apart from doing photography n checklists. These groups can also blindly plant the local host and nectar plants as well. I have seen relatively rare species surviving for long time even with availability of few host n nectar plants. So, planting host n nectar resources will go a long way in conserving these species. I am encouraging and coordinating the same at couple of Western Ghats field stations. Congratulations to ButterflyIndia for completing 9 years. Kishen On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 9:55 AM, Minhajuddin Ahmed Faruqi < [email protected]> wrote: > > > Congrats Vijay!!!!!!....... > > Your motivation and hard work itself is inspiration for others. We will > surely push in some more ideas. > > All the very best. > > Minhaj > > > --- On *Wed, 10/6/10, Vijay Barve <[email protected]>* wrote: > > > From: Vijay Barve <[email protected]> > Subject: [ButterflyIndia] Happy Birthday ButterflyIndia !!! > To: [email protected] > Date: Wednesday, October 6, 2010, 8:38 AM > > > > > 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
