Conserve And Preserve Bannerughatta National Park

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Conserve And Preserve Bannerughatta National Park

• RK Mission Shivanahalli
• 18-01-2015

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Vision Mission

• Vision   
• Awareness about the Flora Fauna around us (ie,
  the students), How to preserve and Conserve the
  habitat
• Create group of individuals who will be
  ambassadors of Nature conservation
• To create a society who will care with Love for
  the bio-diversity around them and protect it

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• Mission
• Create awareness in the educational institutions
  , Corporates, Residential localities by having
  continuous engagement
• Give opportunities to interested ,selfless
  volunteers to pursue more in the field of
  conservation
• Bring like minded individuals and Institutions to
  common platform for conservation activities
• Cause centric movement

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RK Mission Shivanahalli

• Working in BNP for last 20 years
• Converted more than 300 acres into pristine
  forest through Project Kaanana
• Working closely with more than 16 villages
• Have given LPG to more than 90 of population
• Runs SHG in 16 villages
• Working to create a Knowledge park for future
  generation
• A platform used by institutions like KFD, IISC,
  Corporates and Interested individuals

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Activities

• Awareness activities in schools around BNP
• Schools chosen within 3 Km buffer from BNP
• Have continuous engagement for one year
• Engagement atleast twice every month
• Create eco-club in the school
• Make team work on bio-diversity project
• Create young scientists from the schools

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Action Plan

• Schools to be identified around BNP
• Both Kannada Medium and English Medium schools
• Initial engagement of 1.3 hours to all the
  students in the school
• Eco club to be formed in the school with
  interested students and teachers
• The students to be further engaged through
  movies, Field visits, Nature walks, Cleaning
  activities etc

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Contd

• Engage with the school for at least twice a month
  on weekends and other free days
• Conducting summer camps in April, May 2015
• Run Bannerghatta Young Ecologist program in
  selected schools
• Self assessment to be done every 6 months
• Final assessment at the end of academic year
  2015-16

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For Volunteers

• An opportunity to be part of a great movement
• An opportunity to interact and work with
  different people and institutions
• Certificate for those who devote a minimum of 15
  days in a year for the purpose
• Understand BNP , become its ambassador in the
  schools, places of work etc

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For students

• An opportunity to learn about the bio-diversity
  around them and appreciate the same
• Get guidance to pursue in the field of science
• Certificate of appreciation from KFD,IISC and RKM
• An opportunity for bigger exposure interacting
  with volunteers from different walks of life

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Anti-Fire depredation

• Minimum of 3 days
• Volunteers will be accommodated in Watch towers
  along with Forest watchers
• Volunteers will be trained by KFD
• Time frame Feb, March, April

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Volunteer engagements

• Volunteers can join the program at any point of
  time.
• They will be oriented and connected to schools
• Volunteer interaction every month
• Minimum commitment of one year
• Free to innovate and engage students

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Program engagements

• Meeting of volunteers every month
• A team to monitor the progress of project
• Each team to update about the progress in their
  school and share experiences
• Regular updation to the Forest department
• Try to have some renowned conservationist to
  address the group every month

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Other engagements planned

• SHG for the Forest watchers
• Medical camps for Forest watchers
• Corporate support for Forest watchers
• Trainings for Forest Field staff etc

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Financial support for the program

• Its every memberss responsibility to generate
  necessary funds for the project
• Individual donations
• Institutional donations
• Donations can be made to RK Mission Shivanahalli,
  for Conservation activities.
• Eligible for 80G reciept