Sanjeeva Pandey at the SSC Pavilion during the WCC
World Conservation Congress (WCC), Barcelona, 5th to 9th October 2008
A member of Governing Board, WPA-India (World Pheasant Association-India), Sanjeeva Pandey represented the Pheasant Specialist Group (PSG) at the World Conservation Congress, Barcelona from 5th to 9th October, 2008. Every day between 11 and 11.30 AM, the heads and representatives of various Specialist Groups came together to interact with the audience on the issues related to their respective species groups. On 8th October, Sanjeeva gave a talk on the success story of conservation of endangered pheasant species, Western Tragopan which was well received by the audience.
Sanjeeva’s work involved meeting the visitors and telling them about pheasants particularly the Western Tragopan and its conservation efforts in Himachal Pradesh. He also networked with various individuals from countries such as USA, UK, Africa and Portugal so that their queries related to pheasants, francolins may be answered by the officials of the World Pheasant Association.
The main points of his talk are highlighted below:
The world distribution of Western Tragopan, is confined to the western Himalayas, occurring from Himachal Pradesh, west through Kashmir and Kohistan and possibly Uttaranchal, north-west India. Sanjeeva emphasized the point of resolving socio-economic issues on priority for effective contribution to the Western Tragopan (biological diversity) conservation. This required help people achieve better life quality through wildlife management. For example, the communities’ programmes at the Great Himalayan National Park inevitably involved a number of other agencies from the highest level (the Chief Minister of the state) to World Pheasant Association. Similar actions can be undertaken under the Corporate Social Responsibility at the Himalayan Ski Village which is Sanjeeva’s current work responsibility at Manali.
Sanjeeva cautioned during his talk that only Economic Empowerment would not to lead to biodiversity conservation or conservation of Western Tragopan. It needs to incorporate a back-up of
a. effective policy and legislation,
b. socio-political and spiritual empowerment,
c. conservation education programme, and
d. collaborative management.
A member of Governing Board, WPA-India (World Pheasant Association-India), Sanjeeva Pandey represented the Pheasant Specialist Group (PSG) at the World Conservation Congress, Barcelona from 5th to 9th October, 2008. Every day between 11 and 11.30 AM, the heads and representatives of various Specialist Groups came together to interact with the audience on the issues related to their respective species groups. On 8th October, Sanjeeva gave a talk on the success story of conservation of endangered pheasant species, Western Tragopan which was well received by the audience.
Sanjeeva’s work involved meeting the visitors and telling them about pheasants particularly the Western Tragopan and its conservation efforts in Himachal Pradesh. He also networked with various individuals from countries such as USA, UK, Africa and Portugal so that their queries related to pheasants, francolins may be answered by the officials of the World Pheasant Association.
The main points of his talk are highlighted below:
The world distribution of Western Tragopan, is confined to the western Himalayas, occurring from Himachal Pradesh, west through Kashmir and Kohistan and possibly Uttaranchal, north-west India. Sanjeeva emphasized the point of resolving socio-economic issues on priority for effective contribution to the Western Tragopan (biological diversity) conservation. This required help people achieve better life quality through wildlife management. For example, the communities’ programmes at the Great Himalayan National Park inevitably involved a number of other agencies from the highest level (the Chief Minister of the state) to World Pheasant Association. Similar actions can be undertaken under the Corporate Social Responsibility at the Himalayan Ski Village which is Sanjeeva’s current work responsibility at Manali.
Sanjeeva cautioned during his talk that only Economic Empowerment would not to lead to biodiversity conservation or conservation of Western Tragopan. It needs to incorporate a back-up of
a. effective policy and legislation,
b. socio-political and spiritual empowerment,
c. conservation education programme, and
d. collaborative management.
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