Wildlife Awareness Week Mount Abu.1 Oct 2018

The 64th Wildlife Week of  Mount Abu.

The 64th Wildlife Week of  Mount Abu was inaugurated on Monday at the  Forest Department.

A Green Munia /Haria plaque.

Snap above kind favour Charles Guide

 

Abuites from all walks of life, the CRPF, SDM-Nishant Jain, DFO-Balaji Kurry, school children from all the various schools, our very own  Abuites Dr AK Sharma, Narendra Kumar Choudhary, Chunnilal Rajpurohit, Bharat Singh Deora,  Principal Mohanlal Leel, Sunil Acharya, Kashyap Jani, Harnam Singh, Omvir Singh and Ravi Sindal attended this opening ceremony. A Green Munia plaque was inaugurated by the DFO Sirohi Sangram Singh Katiya on this occasion. Every year wildlife awareness week which lasts from 1 Oct to the 7 of Oct is taken very seriously by the folks of this small hill station.

Large-scale changes have occurred during the last few decades. Mount Abu jungles were once impenetrable and substantial areas were pretty impossible to explore. Tigers which roamed freely were hunted down by the elite. Their natural habitat was destroyed and their source of food dwindled resulting in their disappearing from this area. The last tiger reported in Mt.Abu was placed in the year 1970.

To read the News in Hindi click the picture

Wildlife Week Mt.Abu

Today Abu boasts of only a handful of Leopards. Sambar which was plentiful is today almost a lost cause. Very few have been strong enough to survive the onslaught of Modernisation and the degradation of their native environment. The only marked improvement in its population is the sloth bear. The presence of vegetational composition and availability of water Highly suits bears and it is one of the best sloth bear areas in the world.

I do not have the latest statistical data of the wildlife census, of  the animals found here but as soon as I get them I'll post them

LATEST NEWS AN EMPTY OIL TANKER TURNED TURTLE EN ROUTE ABU ROAD .

THE LATEST NEWS AN EMPTY OIL TANKER TURNED TURTLE En route ABU ROAD. 

Charles's guide from Mount Abu just spoke to me. He said an empty oil tanker had turned turtle while driving down. The tanker hit the outer guard wall of the road and went down. THE COLLECTOR the SDM and the police FROM ABU ROAD AND MOUNT ABU WERE ON THE SCENE. They have rushed the driver to the hospital for immediate treatment. His co-assistant did not make it he died on the impact. Charles and the team of forest personnel have moved up towards Aarna. He said the cranes would take about an hour to begin hauling out the tanker.
Will update you as soon as I get news?
Today 17 April 2017
Receive an update via WhatsApp. The forest fire is still not contained, and it is spreading rapidly and uncontrollably. Currently, it has crossed Aarna and Hanuman Temple. IT WILL TAKE A FEW MORE DAYS TO SUBSIDE.
Abuites are being supportive more than 150 volunteers have supplied the various firefighting teams with morning tea, biscuits and packaged drinking water. Afternoon lunch they have supplied packets via 250 volunteers. The number of volunteers has substantially increased and there is an all-out effort by the denizens to aid in trying to contain the burning inferno.

Received a phone call from Charles who's at Aarna. Charles called me from Aarna and told me that they had finally contained the fires at Mount Abu. I'm posting via my mobile as I'm waiting on the Sabarmati station. 
The train is 50 minutes late. I'm posting a photograph of the station 🚉 is deserted. 

Abuites, especially the folks who have been battling the fires for the last few days, can dose themselves with some welcoming nectar of the gods and have the RoCkInG sleep they deserve. 


Today in Times of India click
ABU FIRE SHOWS NO SIGN OF ABATING