2015

COMMUNITY INTERACTION PROGRAMME STARTED IN BUFFER ZONE OF DHANUSHADHAM PROTECTED FOREST

Department of Forest, Dhanusha and Mithila Wildlife Trust, Nepal together started Community Interaction Programme in buffer zone of Dhanushadham Protected Forest. The Programme has been started from Dharampur village and will be end at Nausay village. The programme is divided in 4 parts as under; Community share their feedback on the programmes operated in last financial year and their expectation in current financial year. Dhanushadham Protected Forest Council explains the programmes and budget for current financial year. Mithila Wildlife Trust explains the status of wild animals of the forest, expectations from community to protect them and methods to minimize human-wildlife conflict in the buffer zone. All the participants including council members and MWT members roam inside forest for 1 hour to see the changes inside forest after One year of conservation. Two programmes have been completed so far. All the valuable feedback and suggestions from community have been noted, so that, we can include them in future. Commitments of continuous support from local community really encourage us in conservation and development of the forest.

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RESCUE OF AN INJURED NILGHAI (BLUE BULL) (एउटा घाईते निलगाईको उद्धार)

One Nilghai (blue bull) met with an accident with an ambulance in Pushpvalpur Sector Forest area of East-West National Highway and both backside legs were broken. We treated the Blue Bill with help of our volunteer vet Dr. Shailendra Mandal, though we had limited sources with us. Surgery was required for the Blue Bull which facility was not available with us and we requested for the help from wildlife experts & well established organizations working for animals in Nepal.  Same kind of treatment was given to protected animals in National Park but they couldn’t do it for this particular Blue bull. A Blue Bull/ Nilghai cannot be important for entire country but it is quite important for the district like Dhanusha where no other wild animals can be sighted easily. Every tourist to Dhanushadham Protected Forest seems exited to see Nilghai in the forest, perhaps unavailability of other animals can be the reason. Whenever animal rights issues are discussed in our country, we can read various articles in national media against it, stating that the country where not even basic rights of human beings are taken care, it is too earlier to discuss the Animal rights. They can be right on their part as the organization like UNHCR is also not able to work independently in our country. But the question is can we skip from our responsibilities to protect wild animals of the country? Won’t it be possible to construct a fully equipped veterinary hospital in our country where millions are spent organizing conferences in Five Star hotels? Is Blue bull not a part of our ecosystem? Let’s hope that our government will take some positive initiatives to minimize such incidents in future. जनवरी—२०१५ मा धनुषा जिल्लाको पुष्पवलपुर सेक्टर वन क्षेत्र भित्र पर्ने पूर्व पश्चिम राजमार्गमा एउटा पुरुष निलगाई, विरामी छोडेर आऊँदै गरेको एक एम्बुलेन्स सित ठोक्किएर निलगाईको पछाडीको दुईटै खुट्टा भाँचिन गयो । हामीले हाम्रा स्वम्सेवी भेट डा. शैलेन्द्र मण्डलको सहयोगमा उक्त निलगाईलाई हाम्रो सीमित स्रोत साधनको सहयोगमा साधारण उपचार ग¥यौ । निलगाईलाई शैल्यक्रियाको आवश्यकता थियो जसको लागी हामीले नेपालका मानिने विज्ञहरु सित सहयोगको गुहार पनि लगायौँ तर वहाँ सबै असमर्थ देखिए । संरक्षित जनावरहरुका लागी केही निकुञ्जहरुमा यस्ता उपचार भएको पाईए ता पनि यस निलगाईका लागी केही गर्न सकिएन । सिंगो मुलुकका लागी यो जनावर चासोको विषय नभए पनि धनुषा जिल्लाको लागी सँधै नै उत्सुकताको विषय हो । धनुषाधाम संरक्षित वनमा आउने प्रायः सबै पर्यटकले यसलाई हेर्ने इच्छा जाहीर गर्छन । सम्भवतः यस वनमा अर्को जनावर नभएर पनि यो यहाँको समुदायको चासोको विषय हुन सक्छ । हुन त जब हाम्रो देशमा जनावरको अधिकारको कुरा उठ्छ, नेपालका राष्ट्रिय मिडीयाहरुमा पनि यसको विरोधमा लेखहरु पढ्न मिली हाल्छन्, तर्क हुन्छ, मानव अधिकारका आधारभूत आवश्यकताहरु अबलम्बन गर्न नसकेको यस देशमा अहिले नै जनावर अधिकारको कुरा गर्नु धेरै जल्दी भयो । यू.एन.एच.सी.आर. जस्ता संस्थाले पनि स्वतन्त्रता पूर्वक का गर्न नसकेको परिवेषमा उनिहरुको आफ्ना तर्कहरु पनि जायज हुन सक्छन् । तर के यति मात्र भनि दिएर हामी आफ्ना जिम्मेवारीहरुबाट पञ्छिन सक्छौ ? के जनावर अधिकार सम्बन्धि पाँचतारे होटेलहरुमा कन्फेरेन्सका लागी अरबौ खर्चिने यस देशमा फूल फ्लेज्ड भेटेरिनरी होस्पिटल बनाउन सम्भब छैन् ? के निलगाई ईकोसिस्टमको हिस्सा होईन् ? आफ्नो अथक प्रयासले पनि उक्त निलगाईलाई बचाँउन नसकेको मा हामी सबै दुःखी छौँ तै पनि आशा गर्दछौँ कि भविष्यमा यस्ता समस्याहरुको समाधान प्रति हाम्रा सरकारले उचित कदम चाल्ने छन् ।

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MEET MR. DEV NARAYAN MANDAL, OUR CHAIRMAN ON FUTURE LEADERS, 2015 PROGRAM BY NEPAL TELEVISION

We are glad to share that our chairman, Mr. Dev Narayan Mandal has been selected as Future Leaders of the month February 2015, a part of the program Future Leaders, 2015. He got the chance to share entire concept of Dhanushadham Biological Unit. Future Leaders, 2015 is a unique program on Nepal Television (NTV Plus) hosted by Today’s Youth Asia, an initiative of Santosh Shah Foundation where they collect the person from rural area operating innovative projects to develop the entire nation. The programme will be broadcasting by NTV Plus on Saturday, 14th February 2015 (2nd Falgun, 2071) at 8:00 PM and will be repeated on Sunday, 15th February 2015 (3rd Falgun 2071) at 2:30PM. We congratulate Mr. Dev Narayan Mandal for being selected for the program. And we’re thankful to Santosh Shah Foundation for providing an opportunity to share the project in National media. Please share the news with your family, friends and colleagues. Let’s conserve environment and wildlife, let’s develop Nepal!

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OUR SITE IS UPGRADED

We regret that since last 15 days our site was not working due to some technical issues. But, thankfully we’ve solved all the issues and are back again. We will be updating our daily activities as earlier. Please keep visiting our site. Also like our official Facebook page /mithilawildlifetrust or follow us on twitter /mwtnepal to receive regular notifications. Thanking you, Mithila Wildlife Trust family.

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