Wiki Loves Butterfly in North-East India (WLB-NEI)/WLB Arunachal Pradesh

In this project, we have documented the available butterfly species and subspecies in Arunachal Pradesh. This is an extended part of the Wiki Loves Butterfly project namely Wiki Loves Butterfly in North-East India (WLB-NEI). In this project we are concentrating on the district wise butterfly species availability in different season in Arunachal Pradesh.

List of areas covered edit

Tawang edit

West Kameng edit

Eaglenest Wildlife Sanctuary

East Kameng edit

Pakke Tiger Reserve

Papum Pare edit

Kurung Kumey edit

Kra Daadi edit

Kamle edit

Lower Subansiri edit

Upper Subansiri edit

West Siang edit

Aalon
Dego kamki
Poya Basti
Diking

Siang edit

Lower Siang edit

East Siang edit

Pasighat

Upper Siang edit

Upper Dibang Valley edit

Lower Dibang Valley edit

Namsai edit

Lohit edit

Anjaw edit

Changlang edit

Namdapha National Park

Tirap edit

Longding edit

Participants edit

Name	Role Designated for Field work	Task Allocation	Covered Area
Souvick Mukherjee (talk)	Shooting butterfly, Identifying species, Planning Outreach Programme	Photo uploading in Commons and Identification of Species	Changlang district
Sourabh Biswas (talk)	Shooting butterfly, Identifying species, Planning Outreach Programme	Photo uploading in Commons and Identification of Species	Changlang district
Tamaghna Sengupta (talk)	Shooting butterfly, Identifying species	Photo uploading in Commons and Identification of Specices	West Kameng district
Dipanjali Biswas (talk)	Shooting butterfly	Photo uploading in Commons and Identification of Species	Changlang district, East Siang district, East Kameng district
Subhendukhan (talk)	Shooting butterfly, Identifying species, Planning Outreach Programme	Photo uploading in Commons and Identification of Species	East Siang district, West Siang district, Lower Subansiri district, East Kameng district
Ananya Mondal (talk)	Mentoring, Preparing schedule, Identifying butterfly	Creating and upgrading articles, Identification of Species and categorise the images	East Kameng district

Outreach edit

SL No.	Name	Image	Role Designated for Field work	Task Allocation	Covered Area
1	Gayetri Dutta		Shooting butterfly, Identifying species	Photo uploading in Commons and Identification of Specices	East Kameng district, Lower Subansiri district
2	Rahul Biswas		Shooting butterfly	Video and Photo uploading in Commons	Lower Subansiri district

Report edit

WLB TEAM CO-ORGANISING 5th NORTH EAST BUTTERFLY MEET 2018 edit

WLB pakke poster

The Wiki Loves Butterfly Project team had done a significant & first water mark job by co-organizing & supporting a National level Butterfly meet at Pakke Tiger Reserve in Arunachl Pradesh ,India taking place from 29th September to 2nd October. The said butterfly meet entitled 5th North East Butterfly Meet-2018 organized by Butterflies of North East India Group & co-organized by Wiki loves Butterfly Group, Aaranyak, Numaligarh Refinery Ltd. & Department of Environment & Forest, Govt. of Arunachal Pradesh, participants from different states of India like West Bengal, Assam, Sikkim, Kerala , Tamilnadu etc. They are documented ,photoshoot & oriented 180 butterfly species under the guidance of resource persons Mr. Monsoon Jyoti Gogoi (BNHS) & Mr. Ashism Kr. Choudhuri.

A nice presentation apertaining to Wiki Loves Butterfly project & Wikimedia Foundation was given by Mr. Subhendu Khan of WLB team assisted by another WLB team member Dipanjali Biswas which had subsequently cherished a good deal of outreach programme & the immediate outcome was the joining of a north east butterfly enthusiast Gayerti Dutta in our team. WLB team sponsored the prize for the best participant in Butterfly Quize session of the Meet & the prize, The Book Of Indian Butterfly[1] by Mr. Issac Kehimkar was finally gifted by the champion participant to the forest guides of Pakke Tiger Reserve for development of their specific knowledge on butterflying. WLB swag materials highlighting WLB project & Wikimedia were also distributed among participants & others . Certificates containing WLB logo & other organizers’ logo were awarded to participants. A press release of the event was published in local newspaper. The event was a grand success.

WLB Team Participated in North-East Butterfly Meet 2020 edit

WLB Stall at Namdhapa Butterfly Meet 2020

Wiki Loves Butterfly again marked its footprints in Namdhapa Butterfly Meet 2020 held in Miao, Arunachal Pradesh from 5th March to 8th March. This third version of the above said meet instead can be easily termed as the festival was organised by SEED and co-organised by Namdapha National Park, Miao Explorer, Department of Tourism Arunachal Pradesh, ATREE, Act for Butterflies, Dapha Valley tours and travels and Arun Seth and Co. A total of 176 species of butterflies were observed, identified and photographed by 60 participants from twelve different states of India under the guidance of the butterfly man of India, Sri Issac Kehimkar.

Sourabh Biswas and Souvick Mukherjee represented WLB project team this time. Sourabh Biswas gave a beautiful presentation on Butterfly food habit accompanied by Souvick. WLB members have discussed about Wikimedia, and it's sister projects with the audience. They have also conducted a workshop on How to contribute to Wikimedia commons. People were convinced and showed significant interest in it. Some of them immediately agreed to contribute their pictures in Wikimedia commons. Mrs.Tanusri Mallick from West Bengal, Dipta Roy and Piyali Roy from Assam expressed their interest to work with WLB team.

They have convinced local people and participants about the butterfly conservation and their importance in nature from their stall at the meet. They also distributed Wikimedia swag materials, project description, butterfly articles, butterflies postcards among the people turned up in the event. They have also managed to send some items to Pasighat college and Indra Gandhi government collge, Tezu via participant students. WLB also contributed two butterfly books A Naturalist's Guide to the Butterflies of India by Peter Smetacek to the Miao based NGO Society for Education and Environmental Development, SEED.

WLB team further extended their stay at Deban camp, Namdhapa for exploration of butterflies. Those two days were extremely productive, and they were blessed with some beautiful and rare butterflies. They have managed to document more than 130 species of butterflies from Namdhapa nation park. The meet was a grand success.

Northern Common Jester
Blue-striped Palmfly
Orange Oakleaf
Tabby

Supporting Affiliates edit

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