Power Point Presentation related to the CSR Workshop held in Bandipur Tiger Reserve Hosted By Karnataka Ecotourism Development Board

1. Nature Inspires
Manojkumar
Indian Forest Service

2. We cannot win this battle to save species and
environments without forging an emotional bond
between ourselves and nature as well – for we will not
fight to save what we do not love.
- S. J. Gould

8. Agri Domestication

14. Dance

16. Painting

17. Architecture

33. Velcro is a fabric hook and loop fastener
One lovely summer day in
1948, a Swiss amateur-
mountaineer and inventor,
George de Mestral, decided
to take his dog for a nature
hike. The man and his
faithful companion both
returned home covered
with burrs, the plant seed-
sacs that cling to animal fur
in order to travel to fertile
new planting grounds.

41. Interpreting Nature

42. It’s harder to fight for what you don’t love
than for what you do, and it’s hard to
love what you don’t know you’re missing.
It’s harder still to fight an injustice you do
not perceive as an injustice but rather as
just the way things are.
- Derrick Jensen

43. Insects

46. • Unlike the fungi cultivated by leaf-cutter ants, which the ant
colony uses as food, the Termitomyces culture in a
Macrotermes nest aids in the breakdown of cellulose and lignin
into a more nutritious compost which serves as the termites
actual food. The fungus garden is, therefore, a kind of
extracorporeal digestive system, to which termites have
'outsourced' cellulose digestion.
• The fungus-growing termites of the old-world tropics build
impressive mounds consisting of thousands of workers and
soldiers. These societies domesticated African Termitomyces
mushrooms more than 30 million years ago and became
obligatorily dependent on farming their own fungal food in
their often gigantic nest mounds

47. Hornbills Watch

51. Hornbill Trail Wayside

55. CEE
Centre for Environment Education

58. Hornbill Trail at Dandeli
Distance : 3.5 km
Start point : Near RFO office building
End point : DFO office building
Time required: 2 hour and 30 minutes
Route : Undulation land
Key features : Gregarious sighting of birds
on variety of fig tree
 Malabar Pied Hornbill birds are the pride of the Dandeli. Here, they
are found in large numbers than anywhere else in the state. They are
unique when compared to other birds as they feed on poisonous
Strychnos fruits. Timber Depot at Dandeli is a delightful place for bird
lovers to understand the Hornbill birds' characteristics and behavior.
 Trail Details

59. Hornbill Trail Booklet

61. Hornbill Conservation Reserve
07.01.2007

62. Books to Refer
• Kannada
– Jeeva Jaala
by K Puttaswamy, B. S. Krupakar and K. Senani
- Hasuru Honnu by B. G. L. Swamy
- Hasira Kolalu by T. S. Vivekanand and M. V.
Setumadhav
- Dharmika Vruthagalalli Vrukshagala Patra by
Karnataka Forest Department

63. • English
– Survival Strategies Cooperation and Conflict in Animal Societies by
Raghavendra Gadagkar
– Social Life of Animals by Sukanya Datta
– The Secret life of Plants A fascinating account of the physical, emotional,
and spiritual relations between plants and man by Peter Tomkins and
Christopher Bird
– Secrets of the Soil by Peter Tomkins and Christopher Bird
– On A Trail With Ants by Ajay Narendra and Sunil Kumar M
– A field Guide to Animal Signs by E. A. Jayson and P. S. Easa
– Spiders of India by P. A. Sebastian and K. V. Peter
– Butterflies of Peninsular India by Krushnamegh Kunte
– Pictorial Guide to Frogs and Toads of the Western Ghats by Gururaja K. V.
– Sacred Plants by Karnataka Forest Department
Books to Refer

64. We cannot win this battle to save species and
environments without forging an emotional bond
between ourselves and nature as well – for we will not
fight to save what we do not love.
- S. J. Gould

65. Thank You……