Shyamal, Is this rule an unwritten rule or is it a proper legal law of sorts? If photography is legally banned, then all these photographs would be technically in violation of the law right?
Sent from the touchscreen equivalent of a Nokia 1100, pardon the sender. -- Srikanth Ramakrishnan, Treasurer. On Aug 31, 2013 7:35 PM, "L. Shyamal" <lshya...@gmail.com> wrote: > I was told some years ago that a forest minister had passed a rule that no > photography was to be allowed in any forest areas in Kerala. Any forest in > that including Reserve Forests, in which one is *even* allowed to graze > cattle, collect firewood and minor forest produce. I was just trying to > look up this and found a newspaper article on the topic. That ban was > apparently introduced because of a certain wildlife photographer refused to > provide photographs to the Kerala Forest Deparment for their use. > > > http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-kerala/wild-photography-ban-condemned/article4233888.ece > > Reading that news again with fresh insight suggests that the wildlife > photographer in question was in fact N.A. Nazeer! Perhaps he or someone > ought to inform the Kerala Forest Department of Wikimedia Commons.. > > best wishes > Shyamal > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Shyamal > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimediaindia-l mailing list > Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l > >
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