Dear members, I announce Sh. Dinesh Valke as the Hero of Family Week for the year 2011. His participation in Family weeks is truly amazing with quality posts & pictures & surpasses everybody.
He has devoted himself for a purpose: "When will ALL the flora and fauna of India get on internet ?" It's because of his great ideas that we now have efloraofindia website & itpmods. Earlier when he joined efloraofindia was synonymous with Dinesh Valke. Of course we have so many of Dinesh Valke now & thanks to him for taking efi in the right direction. He is so humble & truly a gentleman though I have never met him. Though from Manglore, he is currently based in Thane & has a career in Computer Graphics & Web Publishing. He has chosen Flickr to display his works. His flora is available at http://www.flickr.com/photos/dinesh_valke/. He is simply amazing at hunting out regional names of plants and putting them in native scripts. Credit for common names in Efloraofindia Database goes mainly to him. He is deeply committed, passionately involved & one of the foremost contributors to Efloraofindia. His posting details are available at: https://groups.google.com/groups/profile?hl=en&enc_user=F17bnBYAAABmx1BsUhliD2LaBjKVcS_so4cocwWvDVg2RHsu8f1bCg&group=indiantreepix His profile is available at: http://www.flickr.com/people/dinesh_valke/ https://plus.google.com/116743893843854209077#116743893843854209077/about My hats off to him. -- With regards, J.M.Garg ([email protected]) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jmgarg1 'Creating awareness of Indian Flora & Fauna' The whole world uses my Image Resource of more than a *thousand species* & eight thousand images of Birds, Butterflies, Plants etc. (arranged alphabetically & place-wise): http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:J.M.Garg. You can also use them for free as per Creative Commons license attached with each image. For identification, learning, discussion & documentation of Indian Flora, please visit/ join our Efloraofindia Google e-group: http://groups.google.co.in/group/indiantreepix (more than 1760 members & 1,00,000 messages on 21/12/11) or Efloraofindia website: https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/ (with a species database of more than 6000 species). Also author of 'A Photoguide to the Birds of Kolkata & Common Birds of India'.
