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Himalayan Nature fosters young
volunteers from all over the
world to work on various
projects in the region. If you
are interested to work under the
programme areas we have set or
if you have expertise to share,
please write to us in our normal
email address with your cv.
Depending upon your interest and
field of expertise we may be
able to help you on this.
Volunteerism is the willingness
of people to work on behalf of
others without being motivated
by financial or material gain.
We welcome all interested
international volunteers to join
and work with us. It usually
does not cost anything but we
may request you to pay a nominal
charge towards lodge and food in
our existing facilities or when
we put you with one of the
Nepali families in our project
areas.
For further information, please
write to
data@himalayannature.org
Our
volunteer's voice
During the second year of my
French Biological study, I had
to do training and I wanted to
work in a developing country.
After many mails, conversing
with Himalayan Nature Institute, I
initiated my work at Lumbini
Buddha Garden, a research
station
of Himalayan Nature, Nepal.
Through this institute, I
worked about farmlands birds
conservation in Lumbini IBA
(Important Bird Area). Dinesh
Giri (ornithologist in Lumbini)
assisted me in my subject of
avifauna and I tried to
understand all interactions
between local communities and birds' life.
Traveling through
farmlands with our bicycles
around the spot, we saw many
species of birds and made some
reports and bird checklists
about those diversity of
avifauna. Thus, we had seen in
south of Dano River, one hundred
and four Sarus Crane Grus
antigone all in roosting place, globally
threatened
species and our best highlight
up to this period. These birds
are very important bird to be
protected in this area!
Throughout the program,
Dinesh Giri helped me as an
interpretation to do many
informal discussions with many
farmers, fishermen and schools'
teacher. I tried to discover and
understand the threats to birds
conservation and we planned to do
some awareness program in
different local school. After one
month of stay in Lumbini, I
observed many threats to the
conservation of the Farmland
birds. Depending in their
habitat, birds were
vulnerable to any changes and
agricultural practices. So, I worked about the uses of
chemicals products in the fields
by the local farmers,
destruction of tall tree and the
different threats like the
fisheries of wetlands.
Himalayan Nature is the only one
institute working about bird
conservation in this area and we
tried to involve local people in
the protection of their own
resources.
RAMOND Paul :
paul.ramond@gmail.com
Address: 20 Rue Adrien pichon
85000 LA ROCHE SUR YON FRANCE
(term)
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