Dear members, What words you say are always insufficient to a great soul like Dinesh Valke ji. He has been a pioneer. He is always full of great ideas. Lot of them successfully implemented in efloraofindia. And what he is doing now, is simply out of the world. His great efforts in compiling names of the Indian plants in all the local languages in their own script, is commendable. Future generations will certainly remember his great contributions not only in this area, but also in carrying great responsibilities of efloraofindia on his shoulders. He has released more than 20,000 of his identified flora images in his Flickr account to Wikimedia Commons, which any body can use freely all over the world. I have always been a great admirer of his deep social commitments for the welfare of the society and trying to emulate him, when ever possible. Completion of 10,000 messages on efloraofindia on 1/1/18, is another cap in his feather, which a very few will find possible to achieve. My hats off to his hard work and continued efforts. -- With regards, J.M.Garg
'Creating awareness of Indian Flora & Fauna' <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jmgarg1> Winner of Wipro-NFS Sparrow Awards 2014 for efloraofindia <https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/award-for-efloraofindia>. For identification, learning, discussion & documentation of Indian Flora, please visit/ join our Efloraofindia Google e-group <https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/indiantreepix> (largest in the world- around 2800 members & 2,65,000 messages on 31.3.17) or Efloraofindia website <https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/> (with a species database of more than 12,000 species & 2,50,000 images). The whole world uses my Image Resource <http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:J.M.Garg> of more than a thousand species & eight thousand images of Birds, Butterflies, Plants etc. (arranged alphabetically & place-wise). You can also use them for free as per Creative Commons license attached with each image. Also author of 'A Photoguide to the Birds of Kolkata & Common Birds of India'. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "efloraofindia" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/indiantreepix. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
