As a part of Wildlife Week-2013 conclusion, the Regional Museum of Natural History, Bhopal organised a valedictory programme on Monday. Additional PCCF of Madhya Pradesh Suhas Kumar was the chief guest.
Around thirty amateur and professional photographers participated in the programme. In the programme the first prize on cell phone photography was awarded to Nikhil Shrivastava, while second and third positions went to Vipin Soni and laksh Kwatra respectively.
Welcoming the guest, S Sethuramalingam, scientist-E spoke various schools of wildlife management like the command and control system and communication and networking system. He further explained there were few foresters who were able to accept and adapt themselves to the new school thought of conservation i.e. conservation of wild animals by communication and networking in utilizing social media networking.
During the programme, Suhas said that there were few foresters who were able to accept and adapt themselves to the new school thought of conservation i.e. conservation of wild animals by communication and networking in utilising social media networking.
Sethuramalingam appreciated Suhas Kumar for balancing both above said schools. Scientist-1 further elaborated such kind of adoption of effective communication system through social media services as well by conservation photography especially in the area of conservation of urban wildlife as a successful drive.
While narrating the importance of conserving small mammals in the unprotected area, he quoted Suhas Kumar as one who endorsed the view that even the buffer zone was not fully protected. Sethuramalingam. Scientist-E appealed to researchers in the wildlife area that their main attitude was to find out the constraint of wildlife conservation and might take maximum information data to authentically convince who need to be convinced.
Sethuramalingam appreciated Suhas Kumar’s ideal works on the conservation of wild animals through landscape photography. Further he appreciated the chief guest for his contribution in the area of wildlife photographs.
Suhas Kumar distributed the awards and certificates to participants. He informed that now we were blind in the race of development and the human were disturbing the habitat of wildlife for development. Kumar further said that forest and wildlife conservation were not possible without the help of general public. He mentioned that a photo by wildlife photographer was equal than a thousand words story of wildlife.