Hi, Geeta ji, Nice to read your thoughts regarding conservation. May be the people like Nature India are nice and knowledgeable, helping, and teaching the conservation with the different way, But what is actual meaning of conservation? Not disturbing or not destroying, is one of the best modes of conservation as per my thought. As per the issue of Kaas is concern this is an Ecosystem in which many small plants, animals, insects are living and dependant on each other. They are happy with each other, then why to interfere with them? Do you know some students of botany plucking out bulbs of ceropegia saying that we are taking it to the institute for tissue culture so that we can multiply the same and conserve this ceropegia. Do you mean that by this way we are going to conserve the species? For some species Ex Situ conservation seems to be impossible. Some layman are taking the flowers to their home for the decoration, is it right? Some people are sitting over the nice bunch of Smithia and making a design by destroying the flowers, Some Lovers are making Hearts by trampling the flowers and taking the photos which may be their memories but this is only for Man’s self satisfaction (Means? Unending...) and not for the other things, I thought. Some plants like Droseras are growing on the road sides, How many people know these things? Nobody! People are trampling these plants may be unintentionally. We can stop them by applying some restrictions. I am not saying that Kaas should be banned to man forever. But we can force Govt. to take some Ecofriendly decisions to make Kaas again vary beautiful. Do you know there are some big deals going on in the areas around the Kaas? What indicates this? There is a very big Threat of commercialization of this area. This may cause hazardous effects to this ecosystem. Some species like Aponogeton satareansis, Eulalia shrirangi are endemic to Satara only. 14 sp. are declared critically endangered. In Panchagani there are some species reported earlier but we cannot found right now. In Mahabaleshwar some plants are reported abundant in Cook’s references, But right now we have to search for a single plant. God knows how many species of plants and insects are vanished because of this tourism! If this tourism continues, the day is no longer to become Kaas, as Panchagani or Mahabaleshwar. I agree, the people like conservators, taxonomist, botanist, Students, Nature Lovers are trying or giving their contribution always with different ways. Ways of conservation may be different, but our AIM is the same!! I am always with the people who care and conserve the Nature! Extremely sorry if you get hurt by any statement of me. But these are my thoughts, I may be different. Thanx. Dr. Kadus Arvind,Pune. · I will send afterwards the copy of appeal, suggestions made to Govt. and forest dept. by the activists from Satara and Kolhapur.
--- On Mon, 4/10/10, Geeta Rane <[email protected]> wrote: From: Geeta Rane <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [efloraofindia:49371] KAAS..Ata BAA...SS ! To: "arvind kadus" <[email protected]> Cc: "J.M. Garg" <[email protected]>, "ushaprabha page" <[email protected]>, [email protected], [email protected], "Shrikant Ingalhalikar" <[email protected]>, [email protected], [email protected] Date: Monday, 4 October, 2010, 6:00 PM Greetings, Thanks for sharing your pix of Kaas, To me the concern of conservation; need to react in right words/way, I'm sharing here my personal experience during visit to Kaas with NatureIndia. Belive me I was at Kaas betwen 24th & 26th sept 2010 i.e. last saturday/sunday, we were 23. Have noted all this during our trails too. I salute the organiser Nature India-Mr Mandarji & Mr Adeshji for their efforts to make layman like me to understand the need of conservation in a simple words: Appreciate, Respect & Conserve: with the help of their resource persons, this time Prof Shinde of St Xeviers' college. Person wondering what we have to do understanding the name, etc at the end appreciated it.this is beginning to me..... Nature India; were not screaming all the time to save our mother nature-Kaas; but they were involving us to enhance our interest & participation to understand the beauty, colour, lifestyle,struggle of these tiny flowers,why they are here in big numbers, etc. this made us understand & remember the names, apart from this, they taught us to appreciate at least & I agree whole heartedly when we appreciate we give respect and this respect transforms to conservation, it may be personal relationship or the nature, eg. for flowers; Tulsi,Gulab,mogra, they are appreciated by us- common people and hence the care for them is taken by heart. Thay also had aranged a meeting with local activitist Dr Shrotri, who are working to safeguard the interest of visitors as well strong promotional activity for kaas. Because of some family matters which require prime attention, I have failed to write on my trips to VOF & this Kaas,too, but could not stop sharing my thoughts not to criticise anyone here but purely my personal experience. while handling local issues eg Shri Ganesh festival, Dahihandi,youngsters standing in our campus wasting lot of their time gossiping, playing songs on mobile in loudspeaker mode, scraming for no reason, etc. I realised while I was with Mr Adeshji and Mr Mandarji that first u try and appreciate with appreciations the respect comes and respect authomatically conserves the interest. Belive me this is not at all to promote the Nature India group but it is fact about these two gentelmen; who are young at age and kind at heart, working very very hard for the conservation. at the same time, it is their bread & butter.hence avoided writing at group. In the nutshell; I want to say that it is sad indeed! but not impossible as Nalini madam said in right words; May be difficult but why not try to share our experiences/storeis/tripreports with our near and dear ones. If possible please forgive me for my overreactions, if any & if it has heart your sentiments, Thanks for bearing my long note, With Regards, geeta rane On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 4:16 PM, arvind kadus <[email protected]> wrote: KAAS..Ata BAA...SS ! Asach Mhanayachi Vel Aliye! Here are some veiws showing how we Indian people are ! Now we have to say Ab Bass !!! KAAS BACHAO ! Prevent to make it another PANCHGANI ! Last Sat Sunday 37000 people visited Kaas, This sat Sunday data yet to come ! Imagin how much quantity of the plants were distroyed by the people in these Sat Sundays! Dr.Kadus Arvind, Pune.
