Presently forest department has decided to allow only 2000 people per day and the fees will be just Rs 10/- (will be collected by JFM team of villagers and will be utilized for 4 or 5 villages around) On Tuesday, August 14, 2012 2:49:55 PM UTC+5:30, gsuhas wrote:
> This is an appeal to all: > Last couple of years, few of us from Pune and Satara are working together > and with forest department for conservation of particularly Kaas plateau. > Few things suggested by us are being implimented by Forest department, few > are not being implimented. Few things they are implimenting are not really > agreeable to us. > But, one thing, we learnt from many meetings with forest department > officials: We need to have consolidated scientic document giving all > scientific information about the place we want to conserve / protect. > Now, we have decided to make one, not only for Kaas, but all locations, > mainly plateaus, which we want to protect and conserve. > We need your help in this big task. > May i request you to send whatever scientific study/ documentation you > have done on various locations? > All credit will be given for whatever you send, in the document we submit > to various government bodies. > The data should be inclusive of > 1. Observation (Flora or fauna) in the form of photograph > 2. Location observed (name of the location , Log/ Lat if available) > 3. Date of observation. > 4. Name of the observer > 5. Name of the publication if it is already published in any of scientific > journal. > 6. If same veriety is still observable at the same location, if the > observation is quite old. > Any other information, if you think worth. > We wish to make this document by this year end and submit to all related > government bodies. > --
