Katerniaghat Foundation and its conservation initiatives

Katerniaghat Foundation came in to existence almost two years back. The foundation had been working in the field of wildlife conservation in Dudhwa-Katerniaghat area. Recently I received the 'Inaugural Issue' of the news letter ' published by the Foundation. Its name is beautifully given as Kat's Eye.

The issue begins with comments of the prominent wildlife personalities who visited Katerniaghat in last few years. Few of them are Mr P. K. Sen, Mr Asad Rahmani, Mr Rom Whitaker, Mr Bivash Pandav and Mr Diwarkar Sharma. The Editorial written by Dhrub Basu unleash the role of NGO vis-a-vis environmental conservation issues.

The very first issue is full with variety of articles mainly contributed by Mr Chanramani Kant Singh, Mr S. Kumar, Neeraj Kumar and Dhrubjyoti Basu. The story of revival and restoration of Katerniaghat narrated by me has also got the place in the issue.

I hope that PDF version of the news letter will be circulated by the Foundation soon for the wider circulation of the text. I wish to see contribution from people other than forest officials or office bearers of the foundation in the very next issue.

The foundation is going to organising a workshop on Tiger Conservation issue on 8th of November and hopefully would be able to draw the attention towards the need of tiger conservation in the country.

The team of Katerniaghat Foundation particularly Mr Neeraj Srivastava and Mr Suresh Chaudhary deserve due acknowledgement for their all positive and sincere efforts.

I personally thanks Suresh ji for selecting my photograph for the cover page of the first issue of the news letter. We all liked this photograph because it was taken in complete darkness and every body know how elusive a tiger is in Terai.

Link: http://katerniaghatfoundation.googlepages.com/