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Preferred Species Inventory; March 2008
One team of PARC and local people inventoried the preferred species of the rhinoceros in the buffer zone of the Chitwan National Park. The activity was conducted in the Riverian forest and grassland.
Invasive Species Inventory; February 2008
In the leading of PARC public education officer, PARC assessed the invasive presence in the Baghmara Bufferzone Community Forest for 4 days. Mikania species is seemed as high invaded species which has invaded on the rhinoceros diet species. The grasslands were found safe places rather than the tree species area.
Field Visit; February 2008
PARC organized the field visit programme in the Baghmara Bufferzone Community Forest of Chitwan National Park, Chitwan, Nepal. The field visit was organized in the leading of Team Leader. The visit focused to see Rhino distribution in the Bufferzone Community Forest. The team directly observed 3 rhinos in site. According to interaction programme with community forest staffs, elephant rider and local people, 14 rhinos were found 3 months before. The pressure of the rhinos is high in this community forest with compare to others.
Presentation; February 2008
Team Leader, Suman Bhattarai, presented the research proposal entitled “Relation between Soil and Rhino diet (Plant) species” at Institute of Forestry, Office of the Dean, Nepal. The research site is the Bufferzone and Park area of the Chitwan National Park, Nepal. Chitwan National Park is the ultimate habitat of Rhinoceros Unicornis in Nepal.
Article on Rhino
To give the brief information on Rhinoceros unicornis, PARC, RSGF funded, has produced the article “Gainda Samandhi Jankari” in Nepali version, whose meaning is “Introduction on Rhinoceros unicornis” in English. The main objective of this article publication is to disseminate the information of rhino, its ecology, its role on tourism, livelihood, community development and revenue collection, conservation opportunities, major threats, status and conservation possibilities. It also has tried to spread conservation themes and consequences of poaching.
Though some of students, teacher and local people know much more information, but still they are not able to disseminate their knowledge as their hope because of platform. PARC and CCAP, Rufford Small Grant Projects (Rhino Conservation and Crocodile conservation), felt that and planed to install “Conservation Notice Board” which can help students, teacher and community to share their knowledge and gained information through article and writ. PARC and CCAP therefore installed ten (10) Conservation Notice Boards in November 2007 in all school where clubs are formed in the initiation of CCAP. All these schools are situated in buffer-zone area of Chitwan National Park. We are hopeful that these boards will help students, teacher and community to communicate and share their views regarding biodiversity conservation and student and teacher will use these boards as platform for knowledge transformation. We are expecting that these boards also fill enthusiasm on student to develop their capability and they will use them for their administrative and academic purpose too.
PARC always hopes that conservation activities will not be effective until and unless people are uneducated. Thus, PARC has set “Regular Educational Material Distribution Programme” through out the year. As per regular programme, PARC distributed educational material to those students whose parents are unable to afford them. In the Nov 2007, PARC distributed educational material to 15 students in the coordination of Rufford small Grant Project (Crocodile Conservation Awareness Project-CCAP).
Foreign Students at PARC’s Area 20 October 2007
Four German Students visited the Piple VDC to study about the Rufford funded Rhino Conservation Programme.
Fabian Sporer, Anne Klatt, Kristop and Denail who are in Nepal in the students exchange programme between Institute of Forestry and HWAK, visited the Piple VDC and interact with the local groups and clubs. The field visit was made in the Leading of Mr. Manfred Mausolf, Forest Engineer and Forestry Advisor, Institute of Forestry, Nepal.
Radio Programme 19 October 2007
PARC has started Radio Programme through the Community FM
PARC has started Weekly Radio Programe named Samrakshan Aviyan “Conservation Campaign” in the Cooperation of Bird conservation Campaign for the one year since 19 October 2007. The programme has been separated into different phases thatswhy PARC has made the Contract with Vijaya Community FM, Community FM station, Gaidakot, Nawalparasi for six months as initial stages. Miss Dipti Khadka is Radio Jokey (RJ) for the programme.
The main objective of the programme is to create awareness on the natural resources and biodiversity conservation among the local community of the Chitwan National Parks. Our expectation from this programme is “People of Different districts around the Chitwan and Nawalparasi will get chance to share the ideas of wildlife conservation and its importance in local livelihood and human existences.
Drama 15 Sep 2007
In the occasion of the Teej, PARC conducted the “Open Women Teej Song Competition” in the ward No-5, Piple VDC.
The programme was carried out in the joint venture of Forest User Groups, Friendship Chitwan (Local Club), Chitwan National Park Lother Bufferzone User Group. Students from the different schools played meaningful and informative drama action to awake their gurdains for rhino conservation and creating awareness on consequences of poaching. Young children, having the age less than 10 year were also participating in the drama. The themes of dramas related consequences of poaching, legal punishment and public prestige of citizen for the nature conservation. The dramas were conducted in the compound of Surdevi Community Forest User Group’s office and more than thousand (1000) people were enjoying the programme.
