Coming from the mountains..!!

Alok · #1 (**permalink**) 14-04-2010, 06:02 AM

HEllo Everyone,
I am writing to you from the Northern Himalayan region in India. I live next to a wild life sanctuary which is being destroyed slowly and steadily... mostly because neither the government or the people recognise the importance of its bio-diversity.

It is for this reason that I am trying to identify and document all types of flora and fauna in this wildlife sanctuary. I am not a botanist or a zoologist and so I would be asking help from this forum (as I do in some other forums too) to help me identify various species that I find around here...

My special interest is in the Fungi of this area
Thank you and will be browsing around for information
Alok

goosey · #2 (**permalink**) 14-04-2010, 06:15 AM

Hello Alok and a very warm welcome from WATW! You are our second active member from India

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What a very worthy thing you are doing. It is a sad fact of life that flora and fauna are thought to be expendable and life goes on giving no thought or consequence to the loss of them. Thank goodness some people are becoming more aware and doing what they can. It would be good to think that the people who can stop your reserve's destruction will take heed.
It will be so interesting for us here to see what plants and fungi you have in your local reserve.

I wish you every success in your be able to document the species, it will be a huge undertaking but so worth while!

goosey · #3 (**permalink**) 14-04-2010, 07:21 AM

Me again - great avatar, what sort of creature made such a print! You should write a post about it on the mammal forum, it beats my fox and rabbit (which I was so proud of

) print thread any time

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paul m · #4 (**permalink**) 14-04-2010, 03:06 PM

Yes, welcome - looking forward to hearing more about your part of the world and, of course, I'm sure we'll all like to help if we can.

When I first read your header I thought, 'Dalhousie is in Scotland!'. and so it is but, apparently, your town was named after one of the colonials, a Lord Dalhousie.

Wikipedia also says that Dalhousie is '... one of the most beautiful spots on earth ...' and very attractive to tourists. Is tourism contributing to the decline of your local reserve?

The Woodman · #5 (**permalink**) 14-04-2010, 11:48 PM

Hi Alok and welcome

Your avatar interests me - the big cat print in the snow - do you know what the animal was?

Alok · #6 (**permalink**) 20-08-2010, 05:22 PM

Sorry friends for not being able to check in.. but yes I think that's a mountain cat (same as leopard but a little smaller.. easier to get the prints in snow..
Alok