Guided Butterfly and Moth Tour to South Garo Hills
18-15 April 2015
Detailed Schedule:
18th April 2015 (Saturday): Depart from Guwahati by noontime. Proceed to Baghmara
via Siju. Night halt at Karawani Home-stay. 8 hour drive.
19th April 2015 (Sunday): Butterfly watching at Karawani stream of Baghmara Reserve
Forests. Night stay at Karawani home-stay. Moth watching in the night at Karawni.
20th April 2015 (Monday): Butterfly watching at Panda or Halwa Ambeng. Night halt at
Balpakram National Park. Moth watching in the night at BNP.
22th April 2015 (Tuesday): Butterfly watching at Moheshkola stream. Night halt at
Balpakram National Park. Moth watching in the night at BNP.
23rd April 2015 (Wednesday): Butterfly watching at Balpakram National Park. Proceed
to Siju Wildlife Sanctuary by 1:00 PM. Night halt at Siju Tourist lodge.
24th April 2015 (Thursday): Butterfly watching at Siju WLS. Visit to Siju Cave. Moth
watching in the night.Night halt at Siju Tourist lodge.
25th April 2015 (Friday). Butterfly watching at Rewak RF and Siju WLS. Moth watching
in the night.Night halt at Siju Tourist lodge.
26th April 2015 (Friday Saturday). Butterfly watching at Rewak RF. Proceed to Guwahati
after lunch at 12 AM. Arrive at Guwahati by 8 pm.
For more information, write in to: sanjay.sondhi1@gmail.com
BOOK: BUTTERFLIES OF GARO HILLS
Full citation of the book:
Sondhi, S., K. Kunte, G. Agavekar, R. Lovalekar, K. Tokekar. 2013. Butterflies of the Garo Hills. Samrakshan Trust (New Delhi), Titli Trust (Dehradun) and Indian Foundation for Butterflies (Bengaluru). xvi+200pp, all in full color.
Since 2008 w
e have been surveying the wonderful butterfly fauna of the Garo Hills, which forms the north-westernmost tip of the globally recognized Indo-Burmese Biodiversity Hotspot. This book follows the publication of our research paper on the butterflies of the Garo Hills in 2012. It has been published with generous and full funding from the India Foundation and the Forests and Environment Department, Government of Meghalaya. We authors have decided not to take any royalty and the publishers have decided not to make any money on this book. However, we are selling this book for a token price with the understanding that all the proceeds from the sale of this book will go to the Garo tribes in the South Garo Hills District of Meghalaya, where we have worked in the past and where we continue our research. Through the sale of this book we are trying to help Samrakshan Trust generate alternative source of revenue for the Garos from the very biodiverse forests that they hold. Samrakshan Trust has been doing this for several years in various ways to encourage the Garos to keep their forests rather than turn them over to illegal coal miners. Part of this effort is butterfly tourism in the Garo Hills, which this book may help. You can find out more about the butterfly tourism in the South Garo Hills by emailing Yaranajit Deka, Kamal Medhi and Sanjay Sondhi.
ORDERING COPIES OF THE BOOK: Copies of the book may be ordered from any one of the following four local distributors/stockers:
Samrakshan Trust, Baghmara (Meghalaya): Kamal Medhi (Ph: +91 8974-986-223) and Yaranajit Deka (Ph: +91 9402-396-570). Their phones often do not work because of the remoteness of their field station, so it is best to contact them by email.
Sanjay Sondhi, Dehradun: Ph: +91 9412-052-189.
Kedar Tokekar, Pune: Ph: +91 9970-167-351.
Krushnamegh Kunte, Bengaluru (=Bangalore): Ph: +91 80 2366-6085 (office), -6086 (lab), +91 9483-525-925 (mobile).
Token price: Rs. 500 (Rs. five hundred), plus shipping costs. 20% discount on orders of six copies or more.
e have been surveying the wonderful butterfly fauna of the Garo Hills, which forms the north-westernmost tip of the globally recognized Indo-Burmese Biodiversity Hotspot. This book follows the publication of our research paper on the butterflies of the Garo Hills in 2012. It has been published with generous and full funding from the India Foundation and the Forests and Environment Department, Government of Meghalaya. We authors have decided not to take any royalty and the publishers have decided not to make any money on this book. However, we are selling this book for a token price with the understanding that all the proceeds from the sale of this book will go to the Garo tribes in the South Garo Hills District of Meghalaya, where we have worked in the past and where we continue our research. Through the sale of this book we are trying to help Samrakshan Trust generate alternative source of revenue for the Garos from the very biodiverse forests that they hold. Samrakshan Trust has been doing this for several years in various ways to encourage the Garos to keep their forests rather than turn them over to illegal coal miners. Part of this effort is butterfly tourism in the Garo Hills, which this book may help. You can find out more about the butterfly tourism in the South Garo Hills by emailing Yaranajit Deka, Kamal Medhi and Sanjay Sondhi.ORDERING COPIES OF THE BOOK: Copies of the book may be ordered from any one of the following four local distributors/stockers:
Samrakshan Trust, Baghmara (Meghalaya): Kamal Medhi (Ph: +91 8974-986-223) and Yaranajit Deka (Ph: +91 9402-396-570). Their phones often do not work because of the remoteness of their field station, so it is best to contact them by email.
Sanjay Sondhi, Dehradun: Ph: +91 9412-052-189.
Kedar Tokekar, Pune: Ph: +91 9970-167-351.
Krushnamegh Kunte, Bengaluru (=Bangalore): Ph: +91 80 2366-6085 (office), -6086 (lab), +91 9483-525-925 (mobile).
Token price: Rs. 500 (Rs. five hundred), plus shipping costs. 20% discount on orders of six copies or more.
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