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PROJECT : EAST HIMALAYA
BIRDING PROGRAMME
(Project undertaken by :
Association for Conservation & Tourism)
Advisory Board
Bill Harvey
At 54 years of age, we better know William G. Harvey as Bill Harvey. He has
worked with the British Council in the UK, Asia and Africa for 30 years. He
is the author of birds of Bangladesh and co-author of "A Photographic Guide
to the Birds of India". Bill Harvey has lived and worked in this region for
10 years. He writes widely on birds and conservation matters in scientific
journals and popular magazines and newspapers. He now lives in New Delhi and
is closely associated with the Northern India Bird Network, which he helped
establish.
Bikram Grewal
Bikram Grewal, at 51 years is a publisher by profession, has written
best-selling guides to Indian Birds. He has written twenty other books on
various subjects of natural history. He has a special interest in the
history of Indian ornithology. The latest book "A Photographic Guide to the
Birds of India", with Bill Harvey and Otto Pfister, Bikram has has made a
deep in Indian ornithology
Sumit Sen
Sumit K Sen at 48 years is a Webmaster and photographer. A retired banker by
profession his love for birds at young age was rekindled. It is an abiding
interest in
promoting and protecting India's natural heritage that drove him to create
www.kolkatabirds.com, a photographic and information website for
the birds of India,
with the help of his friends and well-wishers.
Honorary Co-ordinator
The Vice-President of the association for conservation and tourism, Supratim
(Raj) Basu who is the initiator for most of the Community Tourism sites in
the Kanchenjunga region has volunteered to be the co-ordinator of this
programme. He will connect bird watching activity with the viable villages
and their people, and will participate in the field programmes. He will also
be leading the national and international promotional and marketing drives
under this programme. He has conceptualized the Kanchenjunga Region
International Ecotourism Park, has been a resource person for Ecotourism
workshops in Nagaland, Meghalaya, Sikkim, West Bengal, Andhra Pradesh etc,
he is also the member of the Wildlife Advisory Board-Govt. of West Bengal,
member of the ecotourism committee-Himalayan Tourism Advisory Board-Govt. of
India, panel speaker on Responsible Tourism for Govt. of India-Deptt. of
Tourism, Executive President for Eastern Himalaya Travel and Tour Operators
Association, Treasurer of DHR-India Support Group, Convener of the Project
Management Team of the UNESCO sponsored Darjeeling Himalayan Railway project
etc His Majesty’s Govt. of Nepal has awarded him for his contribution
towards tourism in Nepal.
Co-ordinator (Birding)
Born in 1971, Sujan Chatterjee has been birding for the last 15 years. He
has travelled all over India for birding and has seen more than 850 species
of birds in India. He has been the part of various surveys, projects and findings, like
the following.
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5 Co-Investigator in
-- Oriental Bird Club U.K. funded project 'Survey of Galliformes Birds
in Neora Valley National Park', 2003.
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5 Co-Discoverer -- a
new bird subspecies for India, Lanius cristatus superciliosus, 2002.
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5 Co-investigator in –
Salim Ali Centre for Ornithology and Natural History, Coimbatore funded
project 'Inland Wetland Survey', 2002.
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5 Field Investigator
in -- A bird survey project funded by West Bengal Forest Development
Corporation Ltd. “Bird Status Survey in the Lava and Lulagaon Range”
(Darjeeling District of West Bengal) carried on by Prakriti Samsad, 1999
–2001.
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5 Field Investigator
in -- Collaborative project with Forest Directorate of Government of
West Bengal and Sunderbans Tiger Project on the 'Birds of Sunderbans
Tiger Reserve' by Prakriti Samsad (a Bird watcher's NGO) commencing from
1997-2000.
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5 Field Investigator
in -- A Department of Science and Technology (West Bengal) funded
project on 'Survey of the Vertebrate biodiversity of Ayodhya Hills (Purulia
District)', West Bengal, in Collaboration with Bangabasi College,
Calcutta and Prakriti Samsad,1999.
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5 Volunteer
investigator in --Gaur Project carried on by WWF India-Eastern Region
1997.
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5 Field Investigator
in – General Survey in Neora Valley National Park (Birds) by North
Bengal University, 1995.
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5 Active participation
in Annual Midwinter Waterfowl Census 1990-2003.
He has made various short
surveys of avifauna at following protected areas like
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Tso Moriri, Panggong
Tso, Hanley Marshes, ~ Jammu & Kashmir
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Sultanpur Wildlife
Sanctuary ~New Delhi
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Harike National Park~
Punjab, Auli,
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Corbett Tiger Reserve
~ UttarPradesh,
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Gir National Park~
Gujrat
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Palamau Tiger Reserve,
Hazaribagh National Park ~ Bihar/Jharkhand
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Kaziranga National
Park, Panbari Wildlife Sanctuary, Rajiv Gandhi (Orang) Wildlife
Sanctuary ~ Assam
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Buxa Tiger Reserve,
Sunderban Tiger Reserve,Neora Valley National Park, Singalilla National
Park, Gorumara National Park, Chapramari Wildlife Sanctuary, Jaldapara
Wildlife Sanctuary, Lava and Lulagaon Ranges, Mahananda Wildlife
Sanctuary, Kulik Wildlife Sanctuary, Narendrapur Wildlife Sanctuary,
Bethuadahari Wildlife Sanctuary, Ballavpur Wildlife Sanctuary ~ West
Bengal
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Simlipal Tiger
Reserve, Chilika Lake Wildlife Sanctuary~Orissa
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Vedanthangal Wildlife
Sanctuary, Mudumalai Wildlife Sanctuary ~ Tamil Nadu
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Periyar Tiger Reserve
~ Kerala
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Tansa Wildlife
Sanctuary, Bhimasahankar Wildlife Sanctuary ~ Maharastra
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Kanha Tiger Reserve,
Bandhavgarh National Park, Achanakmar Wildlife Sanctuary ~ Madhya
Pradesh
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Ranthambhor Tiger
Reserve, Keoladeo Ghana National Park ~ Rajasthan.
He is the Co-host of a website
www.kolkatabirds.com and the moderator of a
Bird Discussion Group,
bengalbirds@yahoogroups.com
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