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and Awareness Program As
Bird Education Society intends to protect birds and their
habitat by generating awareness in schools and the communities,
its education and awareness program has been a focus program.
BES is organizing diverse programs in schools and communities
to raise conservation awareness. Some of the successful programs
include Green Club Program in Schools, Green Camp and School
Awareness Program. BES has also organized bird conservation
programs for teachers, college students, journalists and volunteers.
In this program, participants receive wide array of information
on birds, wildlife and environment with discussions, hands
on activities and field trips.
Green
Club
Green club is a group of trained
students who design simple programs in school and community
in the field of environment, sports, health and sanitation,
and culture. They prepare half-yearly or annual action plan
and do the programs accordingly with the support from school
management and other organizations including BES.
BES has established ten green
clubs in Chitwan. They are not only working in schools but
also involving with the communities on conservation awareness
programs with clean up campaign, plantation, smoke less stove
and simple pit latrine construction. In schools, they are
organizing clean up program, various sports competitions,
carrier development competitions (art, spelling, quiz, speech
contests), and cultural programs.
Green clubs that have been working
in Chitwan are:
a) Friendship Green Club (Jhuwani
Secondary School)
b) Bachhauli Green Club (Bachhauli Secondary School)
c) Prakriti Green Club (Mohana Secondary School)
d) Kapiya Green Club (Kapiya Secondary School)
e) Chetana Green Club (Malpur Lower Secondary School)
f) Chitrasen Green Club (Chitrasari Lower Secondary School)
g) Kaparphori Green Club (Karparphori Lower Secondary School)
h) Mainaha Junior Green Club (Mainaha Primary School)
i) Badreni Junior Green Club (Bodreni Primary School)
j) Sisai Junior Green Club (Sisai Primary School)
Survey and Research Program
BES is doing various bird surveys
and monitoring programs in Nepal. Saturday Bird Watching Program
is continuing and it covers wide area of different habitats:
grassland, forest and wetlands. The data thus gathered would
be helpful to update the information on faunal diversity in
the Chitwan Valley. With this information, BES has already
published second edition of Bird Checklist Chitwan that includes
509 bird speices, and total species is still rising. BES is
conducting Barandabhar Bird Survey in the Barandabhar Forest
Corridor in every two years with collaboration of Resources
Himalaya. Other notable research programs includes:
a) Galliformes Survey in the
Chitwan Valley
b) Koshi Tappu Bird Tour
c) Bird Survey in Parsa Wildlife Reserve
d) Bird Monitoring in Shaktikhor
e) Bird Survey in Community Forests
f) Bird Survey in Far Western Nepal
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